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The Messianic Reduction - Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Hardcover)
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The Messianic Reduction - Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (Hardcover)
Series: Meridian: Crossing Aesthetics
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"The Messianic Reduction" is a groundbreaking study of Walter
Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the
context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to
the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By
concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship
with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he
became a scholar of Jewish mysticism, Fenves shows how mathematical
research informs Benjamin's reflections on the problem of
historical time. In order to capture the character of Benjamin's
"entrance" into the phenomenological school, the book includes a
thorough analysis of two early texts he wrote under the title of
"The Rainbow," translated here for the first time. In its final
chapters, the book works out Benjamin's deep and abiding engagement
with Kantian critique, including Benjamin's discovery of the
political counterpart to the categorical imperative in the idea of
"pure violence."
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