...Brian Poole Copyright © 1998 by Duke University Press 1998 Brian Poole Bakhtin and Cassirer: The Philosophical Origins of Bakhtin s Carnival Messianism Tie 1995 centennial of Bakhtin s birth marked yet another high point of his international fame, particularly in the Anglo-American world...

...Eleanor Kaufman This essay examines the way in which Giorgio Agamben's work is marked by a persistent inquiry into that space where what appears as one thing is in fact two. This dynamic characterizes his “state of exception” as well as the notion of “messianic time” central to his book...

... finally argue that what is lost in translation is the apocalyptical, messianic, and redemptive langue of Fanon’s damned. © 2013 Duke University Press 2013 References Agamben Giorgio . 1999 . Remnants of Auschwitz: The Witness and the Archive . Translated by Heller-Roazen Daniel...

... afterlives. This essay offers some reflections on this philosophical trajectory on its own terms but attempts to consider the effort to reclaim Paul for arguments about universalism and messianism in relation to the emergence of the notion of global Christianity , a term that, with its empirical referent...

... a doctrine, a philosophy, an ideal, a project, or whatever else you want to call this kind of obscure presupposition of every political practice. [email protected] Copyright 2023 by Duke University Press 2023 destituent power realization political action Marxism messianism One...

..., in The Time That Remains, he dis- tinguishes his interpretation of the messianic event from Derrida’s and reinscribes the trace as if it were a frustrated Aufhebung incapable of “seiz[ing] hold of itself...

... to these questions might allow us to entertain certain historical and conceptual limits within Schmitt’s for- mulation of the global line of the Western Hemisphere, and also to begin to evaluate in closer terms the messianic charge that underlies secular liberal democracy’s current sovereign crusade against...

... diaspora usually meant exile galut in rabbinic discourse. It inscribed into Jewish theology the hope for a return to the land of origin, while simultaneously postponing that return to the messianic future. Judaism was, then, first and foremost, the diasporic religion par excel­ lence. A great part...

... the classical antitheses, he ventures the view that religious revelations and Enlightenments cross around metaphors of light, elucidation, and revela- tion and around a desire for the most promising, fervent concepts (such as ‘rights,’ ‘democracy,’ and ‘truth’) that have an inbuilt messianic quality...

... for Agamben is the “small adjustment” that allows the event of the Messiah to coincide with historical time but not be identifiable with it.8 This adjust- ment is illustrated in Kafka’s parable “Before the Law,” in which Agamben sees the figuration of the messianic fulfillment of law in the closing...

... toward the past. This is not the Middle Passage as the end of the world; the end of the world is to come. This is a messianic vision without a messiah. Out of the end of the world, beginning is possible, perhaps for the first time. In this verse, Césaire imagines outside the contagion...

... arises from an encounter between Athens and Jerusalem, in which the Apostle Paul's messianic visions are read through the lens of Aristotelian ontology. As for the second, it equates destituent power with Benjamin's explanation of a pure and divine violence. Agamben undeniably lends much needed...

... to the rule of truth and the truth of rule of any such temporal order. The first response is katechontic. It conceives its task as that of restraining the coming of the end of the temporal order of things. The sec- ond response is messianic. It conceives its task as keeping open the call...

... singularity and calculable equality, commensura- bility and incommensurability, heteronomy and autonomy, indivisible sov- ereignty and divisible or shared sovereignty, an empty name, a despairing messianicity or a messianicity in despair, and so on). But, beyond this active and interminable critique...

... of the teleological march of progress but rather as an unexpected event, Paul has gathered around him those who, as Adrian Johnston puts it, embrace “the ‘weak messianism’ of a doctrine of events” as a replacement...

... particularly developed by Adorno, as I show below) but of a different kind: in it, history is conceived as the redemption of humanity or a messianic time, which, according to Benjamin (1969: thesis 14), is the time that Marx secularized in the idea of the classless society. With the notions of “now...

... drifting westward with the inflation caused by Alexander s gold, the Revolution was, for Bloch, a messianic-ecumenical East/West encounter of world-historical proportions.38 Italy s history re­ flected this same porous and polyvalent quality: The Italian Renaissance, in contrast to bourgeois Northern...

... . 2012 . “Messianism in French Caribbean Literature: Césaire, Roumain, Glissant, and Schwarz-Bart.” PhD diss. , Yale University . McIntosh Malachi . 2012 . “The ‘I’ as Messiah in Césaire's First Cahier.” Research in African Literatures 43 , no. 2 : 77 – 94 . Miller...

... and emptied of its power. At first glance, the argument of Jesi's Spartakus might come across as a celebration of revolt's messianic “now-time” against the long-term causal and historical time of revolution. After all, does Jesi ( 2014 : 142) not say that, “in its hyperbole of the dominants...

... of the dominant scholarly and academic cultures; the critique of the notion of progress, which is characterized by a certain defiance toward the cult of mechanized and alienating work; and the critique of the working class and its proletarian messianism, which is linked to a rejection of the oppressive laws...