A weak messianic power : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / Michael G. Levine.

A weak Messianic power serves as the focal point for this study of theological, materialist, poetic, and post-Freudian psychoanalytic approaches to time and the historical unconscious in the work of Benjamin, Celan, and Derrida.

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Main Author: Levine, Michael G. (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, 2014
Edition:First edition.
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Table of Contents:
  • A Time to Come : Hunchbacked Theology, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and Historical Materialism
  • The Day the Sun Stood Still : Benjamin's Theses, Celan's Realignments, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial
  • Pendant : Celan, B|chner, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian
  • On the Stroke of Circumcision I : Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word
  • On the Stroke of Circumcision II : Celan, Kafka, and the Wound in the Name
  • Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice : Celan's Poems for Eric.