{"product_id":"a-weak-messianic-power-figures-of-a-time-to-come-in-benjamin-derrida-and-celan-by-michael-g-levine","title":"A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan by Michael G. Levine","description":"\u003cp\u003eISBN: 9780823255115\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eFordham University Press, November 2013\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e192 pages, Paperback\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cspan\u003eIn his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For Benajmin, as for Celan and Derrida, what has never been actualized remains with us, not as a lingering echo but as a secretly insistent appeal. Because such appeals do not pass through normal channels of communication, they require a special attunement, perhaps even a mode of unconscious receptivity. Levine examines the ways in which this attunement is cultivated in Benjamin’s philosophical, autobiographical, and photohistorical writings; Celan’s poetry and poetological addresses; and Derrida’s writings on Celan.\u003c\/span\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"I H Pentz Booksellers","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47217380425890,"sku":null,"price":220.0,"currency_code":"ZAR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0364\/4047\/3732\/files\/31gV-O7p3OL._SY445_SX342_FMwebp.webp?v=1777362571","url":"https:\/\/pentzbooks.co.za\/products\/a-weak-messianic-power-figures-of-a-time-to-come-in-benjamin-derrida-and-celan-by-michael-g-levine","provider":"I H Pentz Booksellers","version":"1.0","type":"link"}