Aaron Van Dyke and Tom Haakenson are giving a talk on Walter Benjamin's "Theses on the Philosophy of History" (now often referred to as "On the Concept of History") Tuesday, October 20 in Auditorium 140 at noon.
"Theses on the Philosophy of History" was published in Illuminations, which is on the reserve shelf in the library under Graham Stout's name.
Also, there is a good book on display (on a shelf for upcoming talks) in the library called The Origin of Negative Dialects. Chapter 3 ("Dialects without Identity: The Idea of Natural History") is a good resource for thinking about the ideas in Benjamin's essay.
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