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The World to Come: Writings on Ethics and Politics book cover

1st Edition

The World to Come Writings on Ethics and Politics

By Saitya Brata Das Copyright 2023
184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge

184 Pages
by Routledge
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At the heart of the messianic thinking lies an unconditional idea of redemption. The messianic idea of unconditionality is based upon a qualitative distinction between the unredeemed world and the world to come. It is fundamental to this messianic idea that this distinction can't be grasped as transition or mediation. Taking his inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas,... Read more

Introduction

Part 1: Essays

1. Death and Immortality in Plato and Lévinas

2. Ereignis: Heidegger on Art, Technology and Metaphysics

3. ‘To Philosophize is to Learn How to Die’?

4. Walter Benjamin’s Messianic Conception of History

Part 2: Reviews

5. Philosophy and Melancholy: Benjamin on Language and Truth

6. Time, Language, Law

7. Theatre, Number, Event

Part 3: Un-Concluding Postscripts to The Promise of Time

8. Postscript 1

9. Postscript 2

10. Postscript 3

Part 4: Fragments

11. The Title: "The Divine Names"

12. Death, Life and Law

13. Reflections on Hölderlin

14. On the Name

15. Moment

16. From the Other Shore

17. The Infinite Speech

Biography

Saitya Brata Das teaches at the Centre for English Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University. He is associated with the UFR Philosophie, Université de Strasbourg, France, and with Maison des Sciences de L’Homme, Paris, where he was Post Doctorate fellow during 2006-2007. His first book length study called The Promise of Time: Towards a Phenomenology of Promise is published from Indian Institute of Advanced Study, India.

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