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2. Reference is to Louis Aragon, Le Paysan de Paris (Paris, 1926). [R.T.] On the not-yetconscious
knowledge of what has been, see Kl,2,
3. "Restoration of all things." Derived from Jewish apocalyptic, Stoic, and Neoplatonic
Gnostic traditions, the concept originally referred to the recurrence of a specific
planetary constellation.
4, AdonlO, Kierkegaard: Construction qf the Aesthetic, trans. Robert Hullot-Kentor (Minneapolis:
University of Minnesota Press, 1989), p. 54. The Kierkegaard passage is
from The Concept qf Irony. For the passage from Benjamin cited by Adorno, see
Benjamin, The Origin 0/ German Tragic Drama, trans. Jo1m Osborne (London: Verso,
1977), p. 166. Thefocies hippocratica is a death mask.
5. Georg Simmel, Goelhe (Leipzig, 1913), esp. pp. 56-61; see also Benjamin, GS, vol. 1,
pp. 953-954. [RT.] "Origin" here translates Ur,ifJrung.
6. See Martin Heidegger, Being and Time, trans. John Macquan-ie and Edward Robinson
(New York: Harper and Row, 1962), Division 2, Chapter 5. On truth as ((the
death of the intentio" (parenthesis below), see BelalIlin, The Origin rf German Tragic
Drama, p. 36. On time in the dialectical image, see ,21 in "First Sketches."
7. "This sentence could not be found among Keller's epigrams. [R.T]
8. The passage occurs in the Introduction to the Kritik der Politischen Okonomie, in Karl
Marx and Friedrich Engels, werke (Berlin, 1964), vol. 13, pp. 640ff. [R.T.] In English,
"Introduction to a Critique of Political Economy," in Marx and Engels, The German
Ideology, trans. anonymous (New York: International Publishers, 1970), pp. 149-150.
9. Friedrich Engels, Socialism, Utopian and Scientific, trans. Edward Aveling (1935; rpt.
Westport, Conn.: Greenwood, 1977), p. 68. Rolf TIedemarm informs us that Benjanrin
wrote in his manuscript, instead of ((aus damonischen Herrschern;' the tntly
"strange" words "und dfunOIrischen Herrscher:' The sentence would then read:
"they can, in the hands of associated producers and master demons, be transformed
into willing servants."
10. Minx, Capital, vol. 1, trans. Samuel Moore and Edward Aveling (1887; rpt. New
York: International Publishers, 1967), p. 28. Marx distinguishes between Forschung
(research) and Darstellung (presentation, application) .
11. Jules Michelet, The People, trans.John P. McKay (Urbana: University oflllinois Press,
1973), pp. 18-19.
12. Marx, Selated UhtingJ, p. 37.
13. Marx and Engels, The German Ideology, vol. I, trans. Clemens Dutt, in Marx and
Engels, Collected Works, vol. 5 (New Yo rk: International Publishers, 1976), p. 91.
14. Marx, Selected Wnhilgs, p. 38.
15. Ibid., p. 66 (italics added) .
16. Marx and Engels, Collected Wo rks, vol. 5, p. 92 (17/e German Ideology).
17. Marx and Engels, The Holy Family, in Collected Wo rks, vol. 4 (New York: International
Publishers, 1975), p. 128 (trans. Richard Dixon and Clemens Dutt).
18. Paul Valery, "The Place of Baudelaire," in Leonardo, Po{, Mallamze, trans. Malcolm
Cowley and James R. Lawler (Princeton: Princeton University Press, 1972), p. 203.
See I5a,5.
19. Marx and Engels, Selected Correspondence, trans. I. Lasker (Moscow: Progress Publishers,
1975), pp. 434-435.
20. Benjamin's introduction to Jochmarm's "Die Riickschritte der Poesie" (TIle Regressions
of Poetry) appears in GS, vol. 2, pp. 572-585.
21. Benjamin's reference to the "apollnischen Schnitt" remains obscure. TIle French
translator of the Passagen-Werk renders this as "section d'or" C'golden section"), while
the Italian translators offer the emendation "taglio di Apelle" ("ApeHes' section"),