Benjamin reversed Klages, valuing a wind from coming dawn over prehistory

Evidence

Where the highest value of Klages was to feel a breath of wind from prehistoric times, for Benjamin it was to feel a breath of wind from a coming dawn. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 227

Categorization

• SHARE: One neat sentence contrasting Klages and Benjamin’s winds — narrow enough that only a Benjamin/Klages reader would savor it.
• XREF: connects to: Benjamin deliberately inverted Klages’ backward gaze into a forward-looking dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 853; Benjamin’s angel of history frames imagination toward an unknowable future — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 107
• yield-rescued: below the book’s yield-target cutoff, included anyway for connecting to: Benjamin deliberately inverted Klages’ backward gaze into a forward-looking dialectics. — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School: Its History,…, 853; Benjamin’s angel of history frames imagination toward an unknowable future — Aris Komporozos-Athanasiou, Speculative Communities: Living With…, 107

Broader Connections

• Benjamin deliberately inverted Klages’ backward gaze into a forward-looking dialectics. #expands (0.95) — Rolf Wiggershaus, The Frankfurt School, 853