A Weak Messianic Power : Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / Michael G. Levine.
Levine, Michael G., author.
2013
B3209.B584 L48 2014
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Title
A Weak Messianic Power : Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / Michael G. Levine.
Author
Levine, Michael G., author.
ISBN
9780823255139
DOI
https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255139
Published
New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2013]
Copyright
©2013
Language
English
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In English.
Description
1 online resource (192 p.)
Item Number
10.1515/9780823255139 doi
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B3209.B584 L48 2014
Dewey Decimal Classification
202/.3
Summary
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.
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Frontmatter
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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
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