A weak messianic power [[electronic resource] ] : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / / Michael G. Levine
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Levine Michael G
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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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| 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 genere / forma: | Electronic books. |
| 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 |
| 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.: | 9910452542003321 |
| Lo trovi qui: | Univ. Federico II |
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