03660nam 2200745 a 450 991045254200332120211006050510.00-8232-5512-30-8232-5511-50-8232-6085-20-8232-5514-X0-8232-5513-110.1515/9780823255139(CKB)2550000001123624(EBL)3239847(SSID)ssj0001037537(PQKBManifestationID)11586037(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037537(PQKBWorkID)11043478(PQKB)10989408(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292582(MiAaPQ)EBC3239847(OCoLC)867741024(MdBmJHUP)muse27571(DE-B1597)555067(DE-B1597)9780823255139(MiAaPQ)EBC1426705(Au-PeEL)EBL3239847(CaPaEBR)ebr10747402(CaONFJC)MIL525341(OCoLC)859158975(OCoLC)861538569(MiAaPQ)EBC4703383(Au-PeEL)EBL4703383(EXLCZ)99255000000112362420130829d2014 uy 0engur|||||||nn|ntxtccrA weak messianic power[electronic resource] figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan /Michael G. Levine1st ed.New York Fordham University Press20141 online resource (191 p.) illustrationsDescription based upon print version of record.0-8232-5510-7 1-299-94090-0 Includes bibliographical references and index.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 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 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.MessianismHistoryLITERARY CRITICISM / JewishbisacshElectronic books.MessianismHistory.LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish.202/.3Levine Michael G1040167MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910452542003321A weak messianic power2462817UNINA