Messianic Time and Empirical History (of Walter Benjamin)
- Title
- Messianic Time and Empirical History (of Walter Benjamin)
- Description
- Once the Messianic promise is not a myth but historically “actual" in the sense that it is realizable, from this point on, time can be said to exist in two registers: as secular history, the sequence of (catastrophic) events that mark human time without fulfilling it; and as revolutionary “now -time," every moment of which is irradiated with the real anticipation of redemption…These time registers do not follow one another sequentially in the new era; they overlap [see Figure], the one given, the other, continuously a rational possibility. They remain disconnected until the act of political revolution cuts across history’s secular continuum and blasts humanity out of it…
- Designer
- Buck-Morss, Susan
- Date
- 1989
- Source
- The Dialectics of Seeing
- Bibliographic Citation
- Buck-Morss, Susan. 1989. The Dialectics of Seeing: Walter Benjamin and the Arcades Project. The MIT Press. Display G. Pages 242-243.
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- Cross/axis
- depict things of type
- Structural or Hierarchical
- Coverage
- history
- myth
- time
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