Dynamic Repetition – History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought

• AbbreviationsIntroduction: Scenarios of RepetitionI. Preliminaries, 1. From Eternal Return to Modern Repetition2. Tradition and Repetition in German Jewish ModernityII. Repetition and Its Others3. “Weltliche Unlebendigkeit”: Eternity and Repetition in Rosenzweig4. Repetition and Alterity: Rosenzweig’s Translations of Yehuda Halevi, Intermezzo: Abrahamic Variations in Kafka and KierkegaardIII. The Breaking History5. To Know No History: Benjamin’s Eternal Return6. Revelatory Discovery: On Benjamin’s “Repetition of Opposites”7. Freud on Moses: The Return of the Repressed and the End of EssenceBibliography

“Sharvit offers an exciting reorientation of a well-studied segment of the Jewish philosophical canon. By aligning repetition with messianism, he reads and rereads major figures of the German-Jewish tradition to uncover possible new lines of thought in their work. . . . Dynamic Repetition is a wonderful analysis of these writers and texts and should be of major interest to those with any level of experience in this field.”