In The Time That Remains, Agamben seeks to separate the Pauline
texts from the history of the Church that canonized them, thus
revealing them to be the fundamental mession nic texts of the West.
He argues that Paul's letters are concerned not with the foundation
of a new religion but rather with the messianic abolition of Jewish
law. Situating Paul's texts in the context of early Jewish
messianism, this book is part of a growing set of recent critiques
devoted to the period when Judaism and Christianity were not yet
fully distinct, placing Paul in the context of what has been called
Judaeo-Christianity. Agamben's philosophical exploration of the
problem of messianism leads to the other major figure discussed in
this book, Walter Benjamin. Advancing a claim without precedent in
the vast literature on Benjamin, Agamben argues that Benjamin's
philosophy of history constituies a repetition and appropriation of
Paul's concept of remaining time. Through a close reading and
comparison of Benjamin's Theses on the Philosophy of History and
the Pauline Epistles, Agamben discerns a number of striking and
unrecognized parallels between the two works. Meridian: Crossing
Aesthetics
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