Saitya Brata Das

The World to Come (eBook, ePUB)

Writings on Ethics and Politics

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Taking inspiration from thinkers like Jacques Derrida, Emmanuel Lévinas, Walter Benjamin and Franz Rosenzweig, this book draws profound ethico-political implications from the unconditional idea of redemtion in messianic thinking and shows that such thinking is the very task of our time.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 184
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. Oktober 2022
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000781007
• Artikelnr.: 64558780

Autorenporträt

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.

Inhaltsangabe

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