LEADER 03660nam 2200745 a 450 001 9910452542003321 005 20211006050510.0 010 $a0-8232-5512-3 010 $a0-8232-5511-5 010 $a0-8232-6085-2 010 $a0-8232-5514-X 010 $a0-8232-5513-1 024 7 $a10.1515/9780823255139 035 $a(CKB)2550000001123624 035 $a(EBL)3239847 035 $a(SSID)ssj0001037537 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11586037 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0001037537 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)11043478 035 $a(PQKB)10989408 035 $a(StDuBDS)EDZ0000292582 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC3239847 035 $a(OCoLC)867741024 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse27571 035 $a(DE-B1597)555067 035 $a(DE-B1597)9780823255139 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC1426705 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL3239847 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10747402 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL525341 035 $a(OCoLC)859158975 035 $a(OCoLC)861538569 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC4703383 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL4703383 035 $a(EXLCZ)992550000001123624 100 $a20130829d2014 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|||||||nn|n 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 12$aA weak messianic power$b[electronic resource] $efigures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan /$fMichael G. Levine 205 $a1st ed. 210 $aNew York $cFordham University Press$d2014 215 $a1 online resource (191 p.) $cillustrations 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a0-8232-5510-7 311 $a1-299-94090-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and index. 327 $tFrontmatter -- $tContents -- $tFigures -- $tAcknowledgments -- $t1. A Time to Come: Hunchbacked Theology, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and Historical Materialism -- $t2. The Day the Sun Stood Still: Benjamin?s Theses, Celan?s Realignments, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial -- $t3. Pendant: Celan, Büchner, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian -- $t4. On the Stroke of Circumcision I: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word -- $t5. On the Stroke of Circumcision II: Celan, Kafka, and the Wound in the Name -- $t6. Poetry?s Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifi ce: Celan?s Poems for Eric -- $tNotes -- $tBibliography -- $tIndex 330 $aIn 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. 606 $aMessianism$xHistory 606 $aLITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish$2bisacsh 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aMessianism$xHistory. 615 7$aLITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish. 676 $a202/.3 700 $aLevine$b Michael G$01040167 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910452542003321 996 $aA weak messianic power$92462817 997 $aUNINA