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Autore |
Levine Michael G |
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Titolo |
A weak messianic power [[electronic resource] ] : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / / Michael G. Levine |
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New York, : Fordham University Press, 2014 |
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ISBN |
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0-8232-5512-3 |
0-8232-5511-5 |
0-8232-6085-2 |
0-8232-5514-X |
0-8232-5513-1 |
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Edizione |
[1st ed.] |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (191 p.) : illustrations |
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Disciplina |
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Soggetti |
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Messianism - History |
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish |
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Formato |
Materiale a stampa |
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Livello bibliografico |
Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Description based upon print version of record. |
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Nota di bibliografia |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- 1. A Time to Come: Hunchbacked Theology, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and Historical Materialism -- 2. The Day the Sun Stood Still: Benjamin’s Theses, Celan’s Realignments, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial -- 3. Pendant: Celan, Büchner, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian -- 4. On the Stroke of Circumcision I: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word -- 5. On the Stroke of Circumcision II: Celan, Kafka, and the Wound in the Name -- 6. Poetry’s Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifi ce: Celan’s Poems for Eric -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
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Sommario/riassunto |
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In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For Benajmin, as for Celan and Derrida, what has never been actualized remains with us, not as a lingering echo but as a secretly insistent appeal. Because such appeals do not pass through normal channels of communication, they require a special attunement, perhaps even a mode of unconscious receptivity. Levine examines the ways in |
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which this attunement is cultivated in Benjamin’s philosophical, autobiographical, and photohistorical writings; Celan’s poetry and poetological addresses; and Derrida’s writings on Celan. |
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