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Record Nr.

UNINA9910464973103321

Autore

Fenves Peter D (Peter David), <1960->

Titolo

The messianic reduction [[electronic resource] ] : Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / / Peter Fenves

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, California, : Stanford University Press, 2011

ISBN

0-8047-7728-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (334 p.)

Collana

Meridian, crossing aesthetics

Disciplina

193

Soggetti

Phenomenology

Time

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich HoĢˆlderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.

Sommario/riassunto

The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought.  Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger.  By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a scholar of Jewish mysticism, Fenves shows how mathematical research informs Benjamin's reflections on the problem of historical time.  In order to capture the character of Benjamin's ""entran