{"product_id":"9780823255122","title":"A Weak Messianic Power: Figures of a Time to Come in Benjamin, Derrida, and Celan","description":"In his famous theses on the philosophy of history, Benjamin writes: “We have been endowed with a weak messianic power to which the past has a claim.” This claim addresses us not just from the past but from what will have belonged to it only as a missed possibility and unrealized potential. For Benajmin, as for Celan and Derrida, what has never been actualized remains with us, not as a lingering echo but as a secretly insistent appeal. Because such appeals do not pass through normal channels of communication, they require a special attunement, perhaps even a mode of unconscious receptivity. Levine examines the ways in which this attunement is cultivated in Benjamin’s philosophical, autobiographical, and photohistorical writings; Celan’s poetry and poetological addresses; and Derrida’s writings on Celan.","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47118887125232,"sku":"9780823255122","price":30.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780823255122_p0.jpg?v=1763752624","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780823255122","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}