@article{1477604,
      recid = {1477604},
      author = {Levine, Michael G., },
      title = {A Weak Messianic Power : Figures of a Time to Come in  Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan /},
      pages = {1 online resource (192 p.)},
      abstract = {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.},
      url = {http://library.usi.edu/record/1477604},
      doi = {https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823255139},
}