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Author Fenves, Peter D. (Peter David), 1960-

Title The messianic reduction [electronic resource] : Walter Benjamin and the shape of time / Peter Fenves.

Imprint Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2011.

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Description xiv, 312 p. : ill.
Series Meridian, crossing aesthetics
Meridian (Stanford, Calif.)
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Holderlin -- Entering the phenomenological school and discovering the color of shame -- Existence toward space : two "Rainbows" from around 1916 -- The problem of historical time : conversing with Scholem, criticizing Heidegger in 1916 -- Meaning in the proper sense of the word : "On language as such and on human language" and related logico-linguistic studies -- Pure knowledge and the continuity of experience : "On the program of the coming philosophy" and its supplements -- The political counterpart to pure practical reason : from Kant's doctrine of right to Benjamin's category of justice -- Conclusion : the shape of time.
Reproduction Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI : ProQuest, 2015. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest affiliated libraries.
Subject Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940.
Phenomenology.
Time.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author ProQuest (Firm)
ISBN 9780804757874 (cloth : alk. paper)
9780804757881 (pbk. : alk. paper)
9780804777285 (electronic bk.)

 
    
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