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Author Levine, Michael G., author.

Title A weak messianic power : figures of a time to come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan / Michael G. Levine
Edition First edition
Published New York : Fordham University Press, 2014

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Description 1 online resource (xii, 177 pages) : illustrations
Contents A Time to Come : Hunchbacked Theology, Post-Freudian Psychoanalysis, and Historical Materialism -- The Day the Sun Stood Still : Benjamin's Theses, Celan's Realignments, Trauma, and the Eichmann Trial -- Pendant : Celan, B hner, and the Terrible Voice of the Meridian -- On the Stroke of Circumcision I : Derrida, Celan, and the Covenant of the Word -- On the Stroke of Circumcision II : Celan, Kafka, and the Wound in the Name -- Poetry's Demands and Abrahamic Sacrifice : Celan's Poems for Eric
Summary 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
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
Notes English
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Derrida, Jacques.
Celan, Paul.
SUBJECT Derrida, Jacques
Celan, Paul
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940 fast
Celan, Paul fast
Derrida, Jacques fast
Subject LITERARY CRITICISM -- General.
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Form Electronic book
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