Metaphysics of the Profane : the Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem.

Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First World War and 1923, ho...

Full description

Saved in:
Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Jacobson, Eric
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Columbia University Press, 2010.
Subjects:
Online Access:Click for online access

MARC

LEADER 00000cam a2200000Mi 4500
001 ocn827481456
003 OCoLC
005 20240909213021.0
006 m o d
007 cr |n|---|||||
008 130205s2010 nyu o 000 0 eng d
040 |a MERUC  |b eng  |e pn  |c MERUC  |d MHW  |d MEAUC  |d OCLCQ  |d RECBK  |d OCLCQ  |d MERUC  |d ZCU  |d ICG  |d OCLCF  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCA  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d DKC  |d AU@  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCQ  |d OCLCO  |d OCLCL  |d SXB  |d OCLCQ 
020 |a 9780231501538 
020 |a 0231501536 
035 |a (OCoLC)827481456 
050 4 |a B3209.B584 .J33 2010 
049 |a HCDD 
100 1 |a Jacobson, Eric. 
245 1 0 |a Metaphysics of the Profane :  |b the Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem. 
260 |a New York :  |b Columbia University Press,  |c 2010. 
300 |a 1 online resource (353 pages) 
336 |a text  |b txt  |2 rdacontent 
337 |a computer  |b c  |2 rdamedia 
338 |a online resource  |b cr  |2 rdacarrier 
520 |a Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First World War and 1923, however, is less appreciated and understood. This is the first book to make the works of this untranslated and unpublished early period -- including Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism, language, divine justice, and the quest for a philosophy of Judaism -- accessible to a wider audien. 
505 0 |a Preface; Introduction; Part I -- MESSIANISM; 1. The Messianic Idea in Walter Benjamin's Early Writings; The Messianic State: Does the Messiah Initiate or Consummate?; The Division of the Holy and Profane; The Messianic Intensity of Happiness; Tragic Devotion; The Worldly Restitution of Immortality; Nihilism; 2. Gershom Scholem's Theological Politics; Tradition and Anarchism; Zion: Anarchist Praxis or Metaphor?; A Programmatic Torah; Revolutionary Nihilism; Cataclysmic Anarchism; Critical Anarchism; Part II ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AND THE NAMES OF THINGS. 
505 8 |a 3. On the Origins of LanguageMetaphor of the Divine; The Magic of the Inexpressible; Symbolic Revelation; Magic and the Divine Word; Reception as Translation; Misinterpreting the Sign; Judgment; Jewish Linguistic Theory and Christian Kabbalah; 4. Gershom Schole and the Name of God: ""On Language as Such"" Reconsidered; Structure of Symbolic Mysticism; The Creating Word and Unpronouncable Name; Matter and Magic in the Torah and Its Letters; Grammarians of the Name; Microlinguistic Speculation; Metaphysics of the Divine Name; A Microlinguistic Science of Prophecy. 
505 8 |a A Messianic Conception of LanguagePart III A REDEMPTIVE CONCEPTION OF JUSTICE; 5. Prophetic Justice; On the Origins of Evil; Worldly and Divine Restitution; Theses on the Concept of Justice; The Justice of Prophecy; 6. Justice, Violence, and Redemption; Judaism and Revolution; Violence and the Politics of Pure Means; Divine Postponement, Judgment, and the Question of Violence; The Righteous, the Pious, the Scholar; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index. 
600 1 0 |a Benjamin, Walter,  |d 1892-1940. 
600 1 0 |a Scholem, Gershom,  |d 1897-1982. 
600 1 7 |a Benjamin, Walter,  |d 1892-1940  |2 fast  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJqK9JfMk9whq3D8rr3bBP 
600 1 7 |a Scholem, Gershom,  |d 1897-1982  |2 fast  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PBJvRWb8Gd8mGhF9YWYYHG3 
650 0 |a Judaism and politics. 
650 0 |a Messiah  |x Judaism. 
650 0 |a Language and languages  |x Philosophy. 
650 0 |a Justice (Jewish theology) 
650 7 |a Judaism and politics  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Justice (Jewish theology)  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Language and languages  |x Philosophy  |2 fast 
650 7 |a Messiah  |x Judaism  |2 fast 
758 |i has work:  |a Metaphysics of the profane (Text)  |1 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/entity/E39PCFHDVtxPhJctFrvWBYRBT3  |4 https://id.oclc.org/worldcat/ontology/hasWork 
776 0 8 |i Print version:  |a Jacobson, Eric.  |t Metaphysics of the Profane : The Political Theology of Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem.  |d New York : Columbia University Press, ©2010  |z 9780231126571 
856 4 0 |u https://ebookcentral.proquest.com/lib/holycrosscollege-ebooks/detail.action?docID=909210  |y Click for online access 
903 |a EBC-AC 
994 |a 92  |b HCD