| Description |
1 online resource (315 pages) : illustrations |
| Contents |
Saving hope, the wager of messianism / Anna Glazova and Paul North -- Critiques of messianic thought -- Of theory, aesthetics, and politics: configuring the messianic in early twentieth-century Europe / Lisa Marie Anderson -- On the price of messianism: the intellectual rift between Gershom Scholem and Jacob Taubes / Thomas Macho -- Impure inheritances: spectral materiality in Derrida and Marx / Nicole Pepperell -- Agamben and the messianic: the slightest of differences / David Ferris -- Messianic language and the idea of prose: Benjamin and Agamben / Vivian Liska -- Inverted messianism -- The demand for an end: Kant and the negative conception of history / Catharine Diehl -- Migrations of the bohemian / Joshua Wilner -- Paul Celan's improper names / Anna Glazova -- When Christianity is finally over: images of a messianic politics in Heine and Benjamin / Peter Fenves -- Negating the messiah -- The crisis of the messianic claim: Scholem, Benjamin, Baudelaire / Oleg Gelikman -- Messiahs and principles / Paul North -- Messianic not / Werner Hamacher |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Messianism.
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Messianism in literature.
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Political messianism.
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Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, European -- 20th century.
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Philosophy, Modern.
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Messianism
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Messianism in literature
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Philosophy, European
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Philosophy, Modern
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Political messianism
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Glazova, Anna, editor
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North, Paul, 1971- editor
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| LC no. |
2013046185 |
| ISBN |
0823256715 |
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9780823256716 |
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9780823256723 |
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0823256723 |
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