Between the Canon and the Messiah: The Structure of Faith in Contemporary Continental Thought

by Colby Dickinson

Book Overview

Dickinson traces the development of two concepts, the messianic and the canonical, as they circulate, interweave and contest each other in the work of three prominent continental philosophers: Walter Benjamin, Jacques Derrida and Giorgio Agamben, though a strong supporting cast of Jan Assmann, Gershom Scholem, Jacob Taubes and Paul Ricoeur, among others, also play their respective roles throughout this study. He isolates how their various interactions...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1441192247
• ISBN13: 9781441192240
• Release Date: May 2013
• Publisher: Bloomsbury Academic
• Length: 288 Pages
• Weight: 1.25 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.0" x 6.3" x 9.1"