The Messianic Now

Arthur Bradley is Senior Lecturer in Literary and Cultural Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of Negative Theology and Modern French Philosophy (2004); Derrida's Of Grammatology: A Philosophical Guide (2008) and has co-edited (with Paul Fletcher) a collection of essays entitled The Politics to Come (2010). In 2010, he published (with Andrew Tate) a monograph entitled The New Atheist Novel: Fiction, Philosophy and Polemic after 9/11. Paul Fletcher (1965-2008) was Lecturer in Religious Studies at Lancaster University. He is the author of Disciplining the Divine: Toward an (Im)political Theology (2009) and co-editor (with Arthur Bradley) of the edited collection The Politics to Come (2010).

Acknowledgements Arthur Bradley 1. Introduction: On a Newly Arisen Messianic Tone in Philosophy Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher 2. The Apostate Messiah: Scholem, Taubes and the Occlusions of Sabbatai Zevi Howard Caygill 3. Locating the Messianic: In Search of Causation and Benjamins Last Message Eric Jacobson 4. Levinass Weak Messianism in Time and Flesh, or The Insistence of Messiah Ben David Bettina Bergo 5. Tarrying with the Apocalypse: The Wary Messianism of Rosenzweig and Levinas Agata Bielik-Robson 6. The Messianic Idea, the Time of Capital and the Everyday William Large 7. Impersonal Speech: Blanchot, Virno, Messianism Lars Iyer 8. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power Franson Manjali 9. Two Versions of Islam and the Apocalypse: The Persistence of Eschatology in Schlegel, Baudrillard and iek Ian Almond 10. Left Behind: The Messianic without Sovereignty Jeffrey W. Robbins 11. Redemptive Remnants: Agambens Human Messianism Patrick OConnor 12. Why the People To Come Will Not, and Must Not, Be Sovereign: Notes on a Political and Mathematical Puzzle Soumyabrata Choudhury 13. The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovskys Nostalghia Gerard Loughlin