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Motif of the Messianic: Law, Life, and Writing in Agamben's Reading of Derrida

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  • Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing Plc
  • 15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

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The Motif of the Messianic is the first sustained commentary on Giorgio Agamben's use of the messianic, with a view of his polemical relationship to Jacques Derrida. Arthur Willemse explains Agamben's move beyond Derrida by way of his critical intervention in the Aristotelian concept of potentiality and the ensuing transformation of the role of theology and theist assumptions within philosophy. Willemse argues that it is not the case that Agamben announces the redundancy of theology, but instead he revitalizes it by changing its focus from the realm of the sacred toward the realm of the profane.
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  • Title

    Motif of the Messianic: Law, Life, and Writing in Agamben's Reading of Derrida

  • Author

    Arthur Willemse

  • Book Format

    Hardcover

  • Publisher

    Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

  • Published

    December 2017

  • Weight

    454g

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.9 x 1.5 cm

  • ISBN

    9781498544115

  • ISBN-10

    1498544118

  • Eden Code

    4876694

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