On the Outlook: Figures of the MessianicThomas Crombez, Katrien Vloeberghs Cambridge Scholars Pub., 2007 - 165 páginas This volume explores the traditional and contemporary modes and stakes of messianic thinking in its close interaction with both previous and actual political contexts and theoretical discourses. In the past decades, philosophers and political thinkers repeatedly drew upon the millennial tradition of messianic thinking in their efforts to come to terms with the injustices of the present. Their conceptions of messianism build upon and revise, modify or radicalize politico-theological theories developed in the period between the two world wars by thinkers who, in the face of doom and destruction, reverted to ancient Judeo-Christian visions of redemption. The essays address the ways in which todayâ (TM)s messianic thinking relates to its historical Jewish and Christian origins, and how it deals with the legacy of its early twentieth century precursors, such as Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Ernst Bloch, Gerschom Scholem, and Theodor W. Adorno. Historically, attitudes toward messianism interact with the political and historical conditions as well as with the prevailing theoretical and philosophical discourses of their times. Cross-fertilization between messianism, politics and philosophy also inform recent conceptualizations of history and time, language and the law in the writings of Emmanuel LÃ(c)vinas, Jacques Derrida, and, most recently, Giorgio Agamben. The analysis of messianism in contemporary discourse encourages reflections on the following core questions: How does messianism figure in modern and contemporary philosophy? How does it relate to todayâ (TM)s state of affairs in the juridical, political, and social realm? Is it still primarily a Jewish concern, and how has it interacted with other religious and political traditions? How does the impact of Jewish messianism on modern philosophy compare with and relate to other influences of Jewish thought, such as the legalistic tradition? The contributors to this volume shed light on as divergent aspects of messianism as its socio-historical embeddedness, its discontinuous historiography, its manifestations in literature and the arts and its complex relation to human agency. |
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... Luca's revolutionary years and his reading of the Mikra can only be understood in messianic terms . One could argue as well that De Luca's example shows how current reflections on messianism in Italy ( such as that of Giorgio Agamben ) ...
... Luca's " own " voice is inextricably linked to " youth . " In De Luca the notion of " youth " refers both to the unheard , unforgettable voices of his Neapolitan upbringing and to the youth of the 1960s - 1970s , the unforgettable ...
... Luca's generation had been a surplus that after the anni di piombo continued to haunt Italian politics and culture . Unforgettable in De Luca's writings is this generation , with all its indigestible radicalism , that Pasolini ...
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Process and Event in Rosenzweigs Messianic Conception of History | 9 |
Benjamin Critical Theory and the Promise of Loss | 21 |
Derrida and the Problem of the Secularized Messianic | 35 |
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