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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... reading and interpretation and between aphorism and Law as different ways of receiving Benjamin , see Neville and Readings 272-3 . 16 Although I am perhaps somewhat overplaying the similarity between Santner's work on the messianic ...
... reading of the Mikra . For De Luca , this reading is not a matter of the eye or the mind alone . Not unlike the prophets , the writer is first of all dependent on acoustics . Before being an act of the hand , writing is listening ...
... reading which only pays attention to the second horizon of reading . It is the concomitant impression of recuperation of Auschwitz for a larger , politico - messianic project which has been the main driving force behind some of the ...
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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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