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5
For Agamben’s critique of Adorno’s approach to messianism, see Giorgio
Agamben, The Time That Remains: A Commentary on the Letter to the Romans,
trans. Patricia Dailey (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 2005), 35–37.
6
Derrida develops these reflections on messianism in Jacques Derrida, Specters of
Marx, the State of the Debt, the Work of Mourning & the New International, trans.
Peggy Kamuf (New York and London: Routledge, 1994); and more explicitly
in Jacques Derrida, “Marx & Sons,” in Ghostly Demarcations: A Symposium on
Jacques Derrida’s Specters of Marx, ed. Michael Sprinker (London and New York:
Verso, 1999), 213–69.
7
Habermas, “Consciousness-Raising or Redemptive Criticism,” 31.
8
Arendt Archive, Manuscript Division Library of Congress, letter of 21 Feb.
1970 from Agamben to Arendt. Quoted in Mira Siegelberg, “Arendt’s Legacy
Usurped: In Defense of the (Limited) Nation State,” Columbia Current (Dec.
2005): 33–41, here 38.
9
Hannah Arendt, “The Gap between Past and Future,” in Between Past and
Future (New York: Viking P, 1968), 3–15, here 3. Further references to this work
are cited in the text using the abbreviation BPF and the page number.
10
Giorgio Agamben, “The Melancholy Angel,” in The Man without Content,
trans. Georgia Albert (Stanford, CA: Stanford UP, 1999), 104–15. Further references
to this work are cited in the text using the abbreviation MA and the page
number.
11
Hannah Arendt, “Walter Benjamin, 1892–1940” in Men in Dark Times (San
Diego, New York, and London: Harcourt Brace, 1995), 153–206. Further references
to this work are cited in the text using the abbreviation WB and the page
number.
12
Agamben quotes from Arendt’s Benjamin essay (WB, 193).
13
Hannah Arendt, Zwischen Vergangenheit und Zukunft: Übungen im politischen
Denken I (Munich: Piper, 2000), 33. This reference is to the German edition of
Between Past and Future, in which this sentence differs from the English version.
The German text was written or translated by Arendt herself. See the afterword in
this edition, 373–74.
14
Hannah Arendt, On Revolution (London: Penguin, 1991), 205.
15
See “Über den Begriff der Geschichte” (GS I.2:697; “On the Concept of History,”
SW 4:392). See also Marc de Wilde’s contribution in this volume.
16 GS I.1:319. See also Dominik Finkelde’s contribution in this volume.
17
Giorgio Agamben, Walter Benjamin: tempo storia linguaggio, ed. Lucio Belloi
and Lorenzina Lotti (Roma: Reuniti, 1983), 65–82. Quoted here from “Language
and History: Linguistic and Historical Categories in Benjamin’s Thought,”
in Agamben, Potentialities, 48–62.
18
Walter Benjamin, “Der Erzähler” (GS II.2:438–65) and “The Storyteller” (SW
3:143–66.). See also Bernd Witte’s contribution to this volume.
19
For further versions see GS I.3:1234 and 1235.
20
Cf. Irving Wohlfarth,”Krise der Erzählung, Krise der Erzähltheorie: Überlegungen
zu Lukács, Benjamin und Jauss,” in Erzählung und Erzählforschung im