Weak Messianic Power
Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan
In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: GCGBPWe have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.GC 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 attunemen…
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- ISBN: 978-0-8232-5513-9
- EAN: 9780823255139
- Produktnummer: 22571389
- Verlag: Fordham University Press
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 192 S.
- Plattform: PDF
- Masse: 1'303 KB
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