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A weak messianic power : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / Michael G. Levine.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Levine, Michael G.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
- Benjamin, Walter.
- Derrida, Jacques.
- Celan, Paul.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.;Celan, Paul.;Derrida, Jacques.;Messianism--History.
- Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.;Celan, Paul.;Derrida, Jacques.;Messianism -- History.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (191 p.) : illustrations
- Edition:
- 1st ed.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.
- Language Note:
- English
- 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.
- Contents:
- 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
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.
- ISBN:
- 9780823255122
- 0823255123
- 9780823255115
- 0823255115
- 9780823260850
- 0823260852
- 9780823255146
- 082325514X
- 9780823255139
- 0823255131
- OCLC:
- 867741024
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