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Apparition
Author_Saitya Brata Das
Benjamin's Messianism
Benjamin’s Messianism
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continental ethics
Derrida Levinas Benjamin
Destiny
Divine Violence
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Existential Philosophy
Face To Face
Friedrich Holderlin
Fundamental Attunement
Kierkegaard
Labyrinths
law and finitude
Messianic Idea
Messianic Intensity
Messianic Notion
messianic philosophy
Metaphysical Determination
Metaphysical Totalization
metaphysics of futurity
Occidental Metaphysics
political theology
Promise Promises
Pure Language
Sky
Theodicy
Tragic Time
Unconditional Demand
unconditional redemption theory
Unforgettable
Weak Messianic Power
Wo
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- ISBN 9781032365497
- Weight: 500g
- Dimensions: 138 x 216mm
- Publication Date: 04 Oct 2022
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Hardback
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At the heart of the messianic thinking lies an unconditional idea of redemption. The messianic idea of unconditionality is based upon a qualitative distinction between the unredeemed world and the world to come. It is fundamental to this messianic idea that this distinction can't be grasped as transition or mediation. Taking his inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig, Saitya Brata Das renews here this task of the unconditional, the task of thinking “the advent of pure future that is always to come", unenclosed in the bounds of law or in the cages of the “worldly”. He thereby draws profound ethico-political implications from such a thought that opens up the infinitude of the future from the heart of our finitude, and shows that such thinking is the very task of our time.
Saitya Brata Das teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is associated with the UFR Philosophie, Université de Strasbourg, France, and with Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, where he was Post Doctorate fellow during 2006-2007. His first book length study called The Promise of Time: Towards a Phenomenology of Promise is published from Indian Institute of Advanced Study, India.
