Michael G. Levine

Weak Messianic Power (eBook, PDF)

Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan

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Produktbeschreibung

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 attunement is cultivated in BenjaminGCOs philosophical, autobiographical, and photohistorical writings; CelanGCOs poetry and poetological addresses; and DerridaGCOs writings on Celan.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Fordham University Press
• Seitenzahl: 192
• Erscheinungstermin: 11. November 2013
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9780823255139
• Artikelnr.: 44777165

Autorenporträt

Michael G. 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.