Walter Benjamin's Kabbalistic Messianism

What is it about?

This highly speculative chapter finds us back in the Garden of Eden, Adam’s naming of the animals offering a precognition of the Messianic Age in which all things take on their proper name. This chapter will show that Walter Benjamin’s writing forms the completion of the kabbalistic nominal theory given by Gikatilla and Abulafia, where language is coextensive with existence, and yet objects cannot be identified with their names.

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