Messianic thought outside theology / edited by Anna Glazova and Paul North.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Glazova, Anna, editor.

North, Paul, 1971- editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Messianism.

Messianism in literature.

Political messianism.

Philosophy, Modern--20th century.

Philosophy, Modern.

Philosophy, European--20th century.

Philosophy, European.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (304 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The use of messianism in 20th century literary and cultural theory. The essays critique the claim that religious paradigms simply underlie secular thought. In specific, they problematize the renewal of metaphysics by means of messianic temporality, by exposing pitfalls and paradoxes in the messianic idea.

Contents:

""Front ""; ""contents""; ""Introduction: Saving Hope, the Wager of Messianism""; ""Critiques of Messianic Thought""; ""Of Theory, Aesthetics, and Politics: Confi guring the Messianic in Early Twentieth-Century Europe""; ""On the Price of Messianism: The Intellectual Rift between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes""; ""Impure Inheritances: Spectral Materiality in Derrida and Marx""; ""Agamben and the Messianic: The Slightest of Differences""; ""Messianic Language and the Idea of Prose: Benjamin and Agamben""; ""Inverted Messianism""

""The Demand for an End: Kant and the Negative Conception of History""""Migrations of the Bohemian""; ""Paul Celan�s Improper Names""; ""“When Christianity Is Finally Over�: Images of a Messianic Politics in Heine and Benjamin""; ""Negating the Messiah""; ""The Crisis of the Messianic Claim: Scholem, Benjamin, Baudelaire""; ""Messiahs and Principles""; ""Messianic Not""

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

0-8232-5673-1