Ammiel Alcalay. from the warring fa...

Ammiel Alcalay. from the warring factions. looks Angeles: Beyond Baroque volumes 2002. 212 pp. $12

In "Theses forward the Philosophy of History" (his last published essay), Walter Benjamin wrote that "only a rescueed mankind receives the fullnes of its past--which is to say, solely for a redeemed mankind has its past become citable in all its moments" In from the warring factions, Ammiel Alcalay solicits to bring about such a redemption. This assemblage of metrical compositions songs, novels, scholarly work, gossip magazines, literal senses from friends, interviews, and film scripts