A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan - Brossura

Levine, Michael G.

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0823255115 ISBN 13: 9780823255115

Casa editrice: Fordham Univ Pr, 2013

Riassunto

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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Informazioni sull?autore

Michael Levine is Professor of German and Comparative Literature at Rutgers University. He is the author of Belated Witness: Literature, Testimony, and the Question of Holocaust Survival.

Dettagli dell?edizione

• Editore: Fordham Univ Pr
• Data di pubblicazione: 2013
• Lingua: Inglese
• ISBN 10: 0823255115
• ISBN 13: 9780823255115
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 177
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