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1 online resource (353 pages) |
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Preface; Introduction; Part I -- MESSIANISM; 1. The Messianic Idea in Walter Benjamin's Early Writings; The Messianic State: Does the Messiah Initiate or Consummate?; The Division of the Holy and Profane; The Messianic Intensity of Happiness; Tragic Devotion; The Worldly Restitution of Immortality; Nihilism; 2. Gershom Scholem's Theological Politics; Tradition and Anarchism; Zion: Anarchist Praxis or Metaphor?; A Programmatic Torah; Revolutionary Nihilism; Cataclysmic Anarchism; Critical Anarchism; Part II ON THE ORIGIN OF LANGUAGE AND THE NAMES OF THINGS |
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3. On the Origins of LanguageMetaphor of the Divine; The Magic of the Inexpressible; Symbolic Revelation; Magic and the Divine Word; Reception as Translation; Misinterpreting the Sign; Judgment; Jewish Linguistic Theory and Christian Kabbalah; 4. Gershom Schole and the Name of God: ""On Language as Such"" Reconsidered; Structure of Symbolic Mysticism; The Creating Word and Unpronouncable Name; Matter and Magic in the Torah and Its Letters; Grammarians of the Name; Microlinguistic Speculation; Metaphysics of the Divine Name; A Microlinguistic Science of Prophecy |
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A Messianic Conception of LanguagePart III A REDEMPTIVE CONCEPTION OF JUSTICE; 5. Prophetic Justice; On the Origins of Evil; Worldly and Divine Restitution; Theses on the Concept of Justice; The Justice of Prophecy; 6. Justice, Violence, and Redemption; Judaism and Revolution; Violence and the Politics of Pure Means; Divine Postponement, Judgment, and the Question of Violence; The Righteous, the Pious, the Scholar; Abbreviations; Notes; Bibliography; Index |
| Summary |
Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem are regarded as two of the most famous and influential Jewish thinkers and writers of the twentieth century, and their late work is well-known. The importance of the intense intellectual partnership they forged in the years between the First World War and 1923, however, is less appreciated and understood. This is the first book to make the works of this untranslated and unpublished early period -- including Benjamin's and Scholem's ideas on messianism, language, divine justice, and the quest for a philosophy of Judaism -- accessible to a wider audien |
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
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Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982.
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Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940. fast (OCoLC)fst00052359 |
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Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982. fast (OCoLC)fst01801519 |
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Judaism and politics.
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Messiah -- Judaism.
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Justice (Jewish theology)
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Judaism and politics.
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Justice (Jewish theology)
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Language and languages -- Philosophy.
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Messiah -- Judaism.
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Electronic book
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9780231501538 |
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0231501536 |
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