Levine, Michael G.

A Weak Messianic Power : Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan. - 1st ed. - 1 online resource (191 pages)

Intro -- Contents -- Figures -- Acknowledgments -- One A Time to Come: Hunchbacked Theology, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and Historical Materialism -- Two The Day the Sun Stood Still: Benjamin's Theses, Celan's Realignments, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial -- Three Pendant: Celan, Büchner, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian -- Four On the Stroke of Circumcision I: Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word -- f i v eOn the Stroke of Circumcision II: Celan, Kafka,and the Wound in the NameThe.

The notion of 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.

9780823255146


Celan, Paul.


Electronic books.

B3209.B584 -- L48 2014eb

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