The messianic reduction Walter Benjamin and the shape of time /
Peter Fenves.
- Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [(c)2011.]
- 1 online resource (xiv, 312 pages)
- Meridian, crossing aesthetics .
- Meridian (Stanford, Calif.) .
Includes bibliographies and index.
Introduction : the course of the argument -- Substance poem versus function poem : two poems of Friedrich Hölderlin -- 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.