Includes bibliographical references (pages 283-297) and index.
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.
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