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A weak messianic power [[electronic resource] ] : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / / Michael G. Levine



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Autore: Levine Michael G Visualizza persona
Titolo: A weak messianic power [[electronic resource] ] : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / / Michael G. Levine Visualizza cluster
Pubblicazione: New York, : Fordham University Press, 2014
Edizione: 1st ed.
Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (191 p.) : illustrations
Disciplina: 202/.3
Soggetto topico: Messianism - History
LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
Soggetto non controllato: Benjamin
Büchner
Celan
Derrida
Messiah
citation
constellation
date
golem
meridian
repetition
time
translation
trauma
Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Nota di contenuto: 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
Sommario/riassunto: 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.
Titolo autorizzato: A weak messianic power  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8232-5512-3
0-8232-5511-5
0-8232-6085-2
0-8232-5514-X
0-8232-5513-1
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910790668903321
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