Seven days with Agamben: II.i

May 9, 2008 in Reading
Tags: Adorno, Agamben, Benjamin, Messianic, Romans, The Apostle Paul, The historical, The Time That Remains

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 [...]