{"product_id":"a-weak-messianic-power-michael-g-levine-9780823255108","title":"A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan","description":"In 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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Michael G. Levine\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0823255107\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780823255108\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Fordham University Press\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 11\/11\/2013\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 192\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.85lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 9.10h x 6.10w x 0.90d","brand":"Michael G. Levine","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":48136174895359,"sku":"9780823255108","price":110.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_e0d24004-54ed-4bc7-99af-fe84c9e87c09.jpg?v=1770161010","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/a-weak-messianic-power-michael-g-levine-9780823255108","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}