Posts Tagged ‘Benjamin’
Fifth day
My apologies for the delay in finishing off my series on Agamben’s Time That Remains. But the break was worth it to slow down and think about it a bit more. I’ll try and reduce the commentary and increase the questions now.
The fifth day focuses on the words Eis euaggelion theou, [...]
I’m returning to the second day, as I did not finish summarising the chapter, and there were some particularly interesting parts that did not deserve to be reduced to a sentence or two.
I had reached the section concerning the “as if” (35). Agamben starts from Adorno’s ending to Minima Moralia, that the only responsible philosophy [...]
The Third Day
The third section focuses on aphōrismenos, being the past participle of the word meaning “separated”. Paul is “separated” or “set apart” in some translations. But, as Agamben immediately notes, how is being “separated” consistent with a gospel for everyone? If Paul proclaims the breaking down of division between Jew and Greek, (we note [...]
