The Messianic Now : Philosophy, Religion, Culture (Hardcover)

Acknowledgements  Arthur Bradley  1. Introduction: On a Newly Arisen Messianic Tone in Philosophy  Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher  2. The Apostate Messiah: Scholem, Taubes and the Occlusions of Sabbatai Zevi  Howard Caygill  3. Locating the Messianic: In Search of Causation and Benjamin’s Last Message  Eric Jacobson  4. Levinas’s Weak Messianism in Time and Flesh, or The Insistence of Messiah Ben David  Bettina Bergo  5. Tarrying with the Apocalypse: The Wary Messianism of Rosenzweig and Levinas  Agata Bielik-Robson  6. The Messianic Idea, the Time of Capital and the Everyday  William Large  7. Impersonal Speech: Blanchot, Virno, Messianism  Lars Iyer  8. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power  Franson Manjali  9. Two Versions of Islam and the Apocalypse: The Persistence of Eschatology in Schlegel, Baudrillard and ?i?ek  Ian Almond  10. Left Behind: The Messianic without Sovereignty  Jeffrey W. Robbins  11. Redemptive Remnants: Agamben’s Human Messianism  Patrick O’Connor  12. Why the People To Come Will Not, and Must Not, Be Sovereign: Notes on a Political and Mathematical Puzzle  Soumyabrata Choudhury  13. The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovsky’s Nostalghia  Gerard Loughlin