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Author Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960- author.

Title The messianic reduction : Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / Peter Fenves
Published Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, ©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages)
Series Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Contents Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time
Summary The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a scholar of Jewish mysticism, Fenves shows how mathematical research informs Benjamin's reflections on the problem of historical time
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
SUBJECT Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Benjamin, Walter 1892-1940 gnd
Benjamin, Walter. idszbz
Benjamin, Walter. swd
Subject Phenomenology.
Time.
Time
phenomenology.
time.
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
Phenomenology
Time
Phänomenologie
Zeit
Filosofie.
Phänomenologie.
Zeit.
Fenomenologi.
Tid -- teori, filosofi.
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9780804777285
0804777284