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  1. Benjamin's Passages
    Dreaming, Awakening
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own... more

    Brandenburgische Technische Universität Cottbus - Senftenberg, Universitätsbibliothek
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    In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides." Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The "passages" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin’s later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin’s undertaking

     

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    Language: English
    Media type: Ebook
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    ISBN: 9780823262595
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    Subjects: Frankfurt School; Marxism; Neo-Marxism; Paris; Weimar culture; cultural memory; historicism; literary theory; messianism; urban theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
    Scope: 1 online resource (232 pages)
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  2. Benjamin's Passages
    Dreaming, Awakening
    Published: [2014]; © 2014
    Publisher:  Fordham University Press, New York, NY

    In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own... more

    Ostbayerische Technische Hochschule Amberg-Weiden / Hochschulbibliothek Amberg
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    TH-AB - Technische Hochschule Aschaffenburg, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Technische Hochschule Augsburg
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    Universitätsbibliothek Bamberg
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    Hochschule Kempten, Hochschulbibliothek
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    Hochschule Landshut, Hochschule für Angewandte Wissenschaften, Bibliothek
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    Universitätsbibliothek Passau
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    In transposing the Freudian dream work from the individual subject to the collective, Walter Benjamin projected a "macroscosmic journey" of the individual sleeper to "the dreaming collective, which, through the arcades, communes with its own insides." Benjamin’s effort to transpose the dream phenomenon to the history of a collective remained fragmentary, though it underlies the principle of retrograde temporality, which, it is argued, is central to his idea of history.The "passages" are not just the Paris arcades: They refer also to Benjamin’s effort to negotiate the labyrinth of his work and thought. Gelley works through many of Benjamin’s later works and examines important critical questions: the interplay of aesthetics and politics, the genre of The Arcades Project, citation, language, messianism, aura, and the motifs of memory, the crowd, and awakening.For Benjamin, memory is not only antiquarian; it functions as a solicitation, a call to a collectivity to come. Gelley reads this call in the motif of awakening, which conveys a qualified but crucial performative intention of Benjamin’s undertaking

     

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    Language: English
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    ISBN: 9780823262595
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    Subjects: Frankfurt School; Marxism; Neo-Marxism; Paris; Weimar culture; cultural memory; historicism; literary theory; messianism; urban theory; LITERARY CRITICISM / European / German
    Scope: 1 online resource (232 pages)
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  3. Religion of the Finite Life? Messianicity and the Right to Live in Derrida's Death Penalty Seminar
    Published: [2018]

    Derrida's The Death Penalty seminar puts capital punishment and the sovereign violence that administers it into the very center of the deconstructive enterprise. My essay emphasizes this connection, by arguing that the positive - messianic - stake of... more

    Index theologicus der Universitätsbibliothek Tübingen
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    Derrida's The Death Penalty seminar puts capital punishment and the sovereign violence that administers it into the very center of the deconstructive enterprise. My essay emphasizes this connection, by arguing that the positive - messianic - stake of deconstruction is the philosophical defense of the finite life. In order to prove that, I will first focus on Derrida's notion of life as elaborated in his late writings, most of all “Faith and Knowledge,” then link it with his interpretation of Khora as the horizontal republic of the living, and finally, apply these concepts to my reading of The Death Penalty seminars, in which they will resurface as Derrida's fundamental confrontation with philosophy as the “discipline of death” to be counteracted only by the literary intervention of writers. I will claim that the gist of this intervention consists in arresting the sacrificial logic which life brings on itself while attempting to preserve itself, i.e., the aporetic logic of auto/immunity.

     

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    Media type: Article (journal); Review
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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Political theology; Abingdon : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1999; 19(2018), 2, Seite 79-94; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Abolitionism; deconstruction; finitude; messianism; political theology; sovereignty; thanaticism; vitalism
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    Das gedruckte Heft ist als Doppelheft erschienen: "Volume 19 Numbers 1-2 February-March 2018"

  4. Messianic language in trans public speech
    Published: [2018]

    This essay examines how two trans public figures, Lou Sullivan and Jennifer Finney Boylan, try to realize the need for transgender legibility through messianic rhetoric. Messianism is a site of contention in queer theory, between advocates for either... more

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    This essay examines how two trans public figures, Lou Sullivan and Jennifer Finney Boylan, try to realize the need for transgender legibility through messianic rhetoric. Messianism is a site of contention in queer theory, between advocates for either antirelational queer theory or queer utopianism. This essay sees messianic rhetoric as a strategy found in the public speech and writing of Sullivan and Boylan, each of whom instrumentalize it to achieve legibility. Such rhetoric works to the political end of broader transgender acceptance. However, it also relies upon a flattening of trans life into a monolith. Messianic rhetoric legitimates a singular narrative of “how to be trans” through excluding other possibilities. Public speech that rejects this universalizing messianic impulse is possible. The zine “Fucking Trans Women” represents such a possibility, focusing attention on experience and pleasure over narrative linearity, thus providing one path forward for trans public speech.

     

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    Parent title: Enthalten in: Theology & sexuality; London : Routledge, Taylor and Francis Group, 1994; 24(2018), 2, Seite 110-127; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: Jennifer Finney Boylan; Lou Sullivan; Mira Bellwether; Trans studies; futurity; messianism; queer theory
  5. Is the Human Being Redeemable? A Self-Defeating Question
    Published: 2021

    Abstract Rosenzweig’s pathos with respect to an ultimate redemption raises the question of the desirability of a state in which so much has to be undone in order to retain nothing but the One, the All, the Eternal, and the True. Similar doubts arise... more

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    Abstract Rosenzweig’s pathos with respect to an ultimate redemption raises the question of the desirability of a state in which so much has to be undone in order to retain nothing but the One, the All, the Eternal, and the True. Similar doubts arise concerning Rosenzweig’s portrayal of the ways that this state of redemption is anticipated in life: through prayer, love of neighbor, the communal hymn of the We. How accessible are these to “the human being” as such? Rather than arguing against what appears as a grand remnant of the urge for totality, I invoke here two figures whose concepts of redemption partly resemble Rosenzweig’s, but depart from him in ways that make all the difference: Benjamin and Kafka.

     

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    Parent title: Enthalten in: The journal of Jewish thought & philosophy; Leiden [u.a.] : Brill, 1991; 29(2021), 1, Seite 92-102; Online-Ressource

    Subjects: totality; finitude; history; messianism; Franz Kafka; Walter Benjamin; Franz Rosenzweig