The messianic reduction : Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / Peter Fenves.

Author: Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-

ImprintStanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2011]

Descriptionxiv, 312 pages ; 24 cm.

Note:Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Holderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.

Bibliography Note:Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-306) and index.

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