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Walter Benjamin's 9th thesis on the concept of history is his most-quoted and -commented text. As it is well known, his idea of the "Angel of History" appears as a commentary on Paul Klee's famous watercolor titled 'Angelus Novus'. I think it is necessary to open another way of interpretation through the connection of Benjamin's Angel of History with the political iconography of Berlin, the city where he was born and lived for many years and about which he wrote in his memories of childhood, his Berlin chronicles and radio programs. I shall begin the historical narrative of Berlin's political iconography with a figure to which Benjamin paid little attention: the Goddess Fortune.

The present article traces an absence of historical sense and its implications in modernity through the diagnosis proposed by Marx, Nietzsche, Heidegger, and other philosophers. I start with Marx's critique on the lack of historical sense of the bourgeois political economy and Nietzsche's concept of "Egypticism" as the idiosyncrasy in philosophy of giving more value to permanence that to change. Then, I use the image of the clock to explore the relation between time and the loss of historical sense in modernity under the light of 20th-century thinkers. Afterwards, I propose a possible origin if the lack of historical sense in modernity through the paradoxical relation between being and time in Aristotle. Finally I offer another interpretation of time, from the perspective of the instant, in Dogen to show how this "history of the instant" can transform the "history of the present" we have traced throughout the paper. In my conclusions, I point out some philosophical and political alternatives of the history of the instant. ; El presente artículo rastrea una falta de sentido histórico y sus implicaciones en la tradición moderna a través de los diagnósticos de Marx, Nietzsche y Heidegger, entre otros. Parto de la crítica de Marx a la falta de sentido histórico en la economía política burguesa y el concepto nietzscheano de "egipticismo" como la idiosincrasia filosófica de valorar lo permanente por encima de lo que deviene. Después, utilizo la imagen del reloj para explorar la relación entre el tiempo y la pérdida de sentido histórico en la modernidad a la luz de pensadores del siglo xx. Posteriormente propongo una posible fuente de dicha falta de sentido histórico en la paradójica relación entre ser y tiempo en Aristóteles. Finalmente, aventuro otra interpretación del tiempo desde la perspectiva del instante en Dogen para mostrar cómo esta "historia del instante" puede transformar la "historia del presente" que hemos rastreado a través del artículo. En mis conclusiones incluyo algunas alternativas filosóficas y políticas de la historia del instante.

Civil history of Michigan -- History of Michigan during the rebellion -- Biographical history of Michigan -- Miscellaneous records. ; Mode of access: Internet.

Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea exposes the interactions between two ostensibly opposing worlds: war and travel. While soldiers deployed to Eastern New Guinea during the Second World War recalled first-hand their experience of war, post-war tourists visited battle-sites, met locals, and drew their own conclusions about the Pacific island from the Japanese media. This book, in bringing travel and war closer together through a comparative analysis of veterans memoirs and the records of postwar travelers, explores how individuals consume, create, and recreate war histories. As a result, Ryota Nishino reveals the extent to which the memory of defeat - for both soldiers and civilians alike - influenced the Japanese perceptions of Papua New Guinea and shaped future relations between the countries. Translating a diverse range of Japanese primary and archival sources, this book provides the first English-language analysis of the social and political impact of Japanese interpretations of the PNG campaign and its aftermath. As such, Japanese Perceptions of Papua New Guinea: War, Travel and the Reimagining of History is an important text for anyone seeking a sophisticated understanding of war, nationalism, and memory culture in Japan and the Pacific Islands