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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... beginning in one , the center in space , the beginning in time . [ ... ] Foundation and Revelation , center and beginning all together , is the Revelation of the divine name . ( Star 202 ) This passage demonstrates how Rosenzweig ...
... beginning two words that are miles apart in Italian but that are united in that other language by the mysterious ... beginning . ( 160 ) De Luca's youth is the incarcerated remainder that persists in its interruption in productive ...
... beginning in the arts " is complemented by their belief in a new beginning " in the life of the individual and in the human community " ( Menschheitsdämmerung 14 ) , it is consistently the first - mentioned new beginning which takes ...
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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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