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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 171–186.
Published: 01 May 2018
...James Martel In “Critique of Violence,” Benjamin writes that the “educative power, which in its perfected form stands outside the law, is one of [divine violence’s] manifestations.” To recognize the connection Benjamin makes between a messianic power and acts of pedagogy allows us to revisit...
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boundary 2 (2017) 44 (1): 239–265.
Published: 01 February 2017
... of “light,” which are the hypomnemata , or inscriptions, themselves. The progressivist and utopist styles, and weak messianism, which defined twentieth-century critical projects, themselves fueled the ecocidal trajectory. Any future war over inscriptions, the last perimeters of which bots now probe...
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boundary 2 (2012) 39 (2): 111–141.
Published: 01 May 2012
... defense of Vedic monotheism, Bankimchandra Chattopadhyay’s efforts at using modern disciplinary knowledge (history, philosophy, science, aesthetics) to formulate a system of Hindu ethics and to establish Krishna as a singular messianic figure like Christ or Buddha, or a later moment in Savarkar’s time...
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boundary 2 (2008) 35 (3): 27–62.
Published: 01 August 2008
.... On the one hand, Benjamin frequently discusses the idea of
“secularization”—from the “secularization” of the idea of the messianic
in Marx, to the more general “secularization of the theological in politics”
diagnosed by Carl Schmitt, to the secularization of a religious “aura...
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boundary 2 (2010) 37 (1): 127–166.
Published: 01 February 2010
... the fundamentalist tendencies of the
messianic Zionists), not much different from that of the prominent modern
(i.e., post-Balfour) Zionists such as Theodor Herzl and Weizmann during
the first part of the twentieth century. He shows that Walzer’s intent is not
simply to identify this Western democratic...
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boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 145–153.
Published: 01 May 2009
... that suggestion.
Finally, McClure mistakes our view of the mysticism we criticize in
both the New Left and in postmodern fiction, suggesting that we charac-
terize it as “infantile” and “messianic.” But we do not use the first adjec-
tive, and our understanding of the second seems significantly...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2009) 36 (2): 125–143.
Published: 01 May 2009
... of mystery” (Magic, 447). It locates human possibility
either in the messianic intervention of superhuman agents (gods, cosmic
laws, magical practices, and the miraculous) or in the construction of mysti-
cal communities of retreat. Its politics—to the extent it can be called politics
at all...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2017) 44 (4): 113–140.
Published: 01 November 2017
... of Abbau.” Journal of the British Society for Phenomenology 21 , no. 1 : 14 – 25 . Fenves Peter . 2011 . The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time . Stanford, CA : Stanford University Press . ———. 2016 . “Completion Instead of Revelation: Toward...
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boundary 2 (2024) 51 (4): 145–158.
Published: 01 November 2024
... bespeaks an altogether different situation. To characterize this promissory directive, entailing responsibility and a task, Oyarzun adopts Walter Benjamin's term “messianic.” He accordingly refers to a messianic passive voice and a demonic passive voice, both marked by the reflexive pronoun se in Spanish...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (2): 45–67.
Published: 01 May 2002
... is sometimes called, after Hölderlin, ‘‘the
expressionless See, in particular, the essay ‘‘Goethe’s Elective Affinities SW, 1:340–41.
7. See, in this context, the fragment entitled ‘‘The Currently Effective Messianic Elements’’
(SW, 1:213).
Friedlander / Walter Benjamin’s Selected Writings...
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boundary 2 (2006) 33 (1): 229–245.
Published: 01 February 2006
...?
Is this an avoidance of difficulty?
240 boundary 2 / Spring 2006
23.
‘‘Perspectives must be fashioned’’
‘‘that displace and estrange’’
‘‘the world, reveal it’’
‘‘to be, with its rifts’’
crevices
‘‘as indigent and distorted’’
‘‘as it will appear one day’’
‘‘in the messianic light
So—this new perspective...
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boundary 2 (2022) 49 (3): 99–116.
Published: 01 August 2022
...-messianic claim to world-shattering rebirth and Judaic self-sacrifice via an accidental yet fateful transfiguration: “About a year later, I went to a library in Rome and I found a book about transfiguration, because it's nothing you really hear about every day, and it's in that mystical realm, and I found...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (4): 237–238.
Published: 01 November 2023
...://caesuramag.org/ ). Peter Fenves, the Joan and Serapta Harrison Professor of Literature at Northwestern University, is the author of several books, including The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time (2010) and Late Kant: Towards Another Law of the Earth (2003). He has also edited...
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boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 203–219.
Published: 01 May 2018
... a protracted childhood, and “whose task is [now] wake-
fulness itself” (Nietzsche [1966] 1989: 2).2 His word here is Wachsein, being
awake, waking being. With this historicizing of the old messianic theme of
awakening—wakefulness as an eventuating historical task—I should like to
juxtapose Marx’s famous...
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boundary 2 (2021) 48 (3): 191–213.
Published: 01 August 2021
... to this model, on the part of the pro-independence movement, has been a messianic revolutionary state of exceptionality . Following the police violence during the referendum and the application of Article 155 of the Spanish Constitution, the independence movement invoked the messianic revolutionary imagery...
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Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 1–10.
Published: 01 May 2018
... and Nietz-
schean) version of the old messianic motif of awakening in its interplay with
the motifs of experience and learning. Benjamin’s participation in the youth
movement is seen to center on educational reform as the catalyst of a more
general reform of consciousness: the “protest against school...
Journal Article
boundary 2 (2018) 45 (2): 35–62.
Published: 01 May 2018
...
messianic face . . . to the concept of classless society . . . in the interest
of furthering the revolutionary politics of the proletariat itself” (2003: 403)
constitutes the precise political inversion of Nietzsche’s early philosophy.
Celebrating the fall of the Paris Commune of 1871 in a letter...
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boundary 2 (2023) 50 (1): 69–104.
Published: 01 February 2023
... appeal to a Muslim audience with apocalyptic messianism crucially also relies on the sovereignty claims of his Trad right project of authoritarian multipolarity (“Alexander” 2022). This postsecular politics not only authorizes post-Soviet religious practice and religious orthodoxy, but also invokes...
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boundary 2 (2002) 29 (1): 65–96.
Published: 01 February 2002
.... It turns out that even perfection
and only perfection has its limits. Philopoesis perfects the text by not per-
fecting it—that is, by singing the glory of its limits. Let me illustrate this by
way of a parable.
There is a Chassidic parable regarding the messianic kingdom that
ricochets from...
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boundary 2 (2013) 40 (1): 77–80.
Published: 01 February 2013
... postsecularism emerged in the 1970s following the
exhaustion of a major secular project, the utopian Left, which was based
on a teleological understanding of history. It also converged with the nega-
Lambropoulos / Why I Am Not a Postsecularist 79
tive Messianism produced...
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