The Messianic Reduction: Walter Benjamin and the Shape of Time

by Peter Fenves

Book Overview

The Messianic Reduction is a groundbreaking study of Walter Benjamin's thought. Fenves places Benjamin's early writings in the context of contemporaneous philosophy, with particular attention to the work of Bergson, Cohen, Husserl, Frege, and Heidegger. By concentrating on a neglected dimension of Benjamin's friendship with Gershom Scholem, who was a student of mathematics before he became a scholar of Jewish mysticism, Fenves shows how...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804757887
• ISBN13: 9780804757881
• Release Date: December 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 336 Pages
• Weight: 1.05 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 8.9"