...that doth fade But doth suffer a sea-change Into something rich and strange. — The Tempest, I, 2 Insofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition,...he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power...

...quotations may capture something of her own practice of thinking in the company of exemplary thinkers: Insofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition,...he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power...

...between the past and present is important to any counterhegemonic movement. As Walter Benjamin understood "[i]nsofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition,...presents itself historically, it becomes tradition." The past is legitimate because it is authentic. The political movements of the sixties, like all movements,...

...collector who gathers his fragments and scraps from the debris of the past'.74 In her view Benjamin became a master 'when he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power...

...and strange." Arendt first cites this passage from Shakespeare in her 1968 essay on Walter Benjamin. Walter Benjamin knew that the break in tradition and...he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power...

...survival that guides their endeavor. In examining Benjamin's relation to the past, Arendt writes that: Insofar as the past has been transmitted as tradition,...he discovered that the transmissibility of the past had been replaced by its citability and that in place of its authority there had arisen a strange power...