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Subjects:

Messianism.
Messianism in literature.
Political messianism.
Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century.
Philosophy, European -- 20th century.
Popular culture -- Philosophy.

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.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contributor:

Glazova, Anna, editor.
North, Paul, 1971- editor.

ISBN:

9780823256716 (cloth : alk. paper)
0823256715 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780823256723 (pbk. : alk. paper)
0823256723 (pbk. : alk. paper)

OCLC:

861678605