TY  - BOOK
AU  - Levine,Michael G.
TI  - A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan 
SN  - 9780823255108
AV  - B3209.B584 L48 2014
U1  - 202/.3 23
PY  - 2013///]
CY  - New York, NY : 
PB  - Fordham University Press, 
KW  - Messianism
KW  - History
KW  - Jewish Studies
KW  - Literary Studies
KW  - Philosophy & Theory
KW  - LITERARY CRITICISM / Jewish
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Benjamin
KW  - Büchner
KW  - Celan
KW  - Derrida
KW  - Messiah
KW  - citation
KW  - constellation
KW  - date
KW  - golem
KW  - meridian
KW  - repetition
KW  - time
KW  - translation
KW  - trauma
N1  - 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; restricted access
N2  - 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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