Last summer, I discovered a short piece of creative writing on “Progress” by Hannah Arendt. In the undated parable she reimagines Walter Benjamin’s “Angelus Novus” fragment from the Theses on the Philosophy of History.
It is a meditation on the flow of everyday life, personal responsibility, and what it means to stop and think. (The full text and some no…
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