並列摘要
Benjamin's Biblical Interpretations by Brian Britt examines a seldom explored academic realm in Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) studies in China. The author raises many interesting and significant questions concerning with Benjamin's Intellectual or Cultural Zionism Project inspired by his Judaic identity and influenced by his intimate friend Gershom Scholem as well as the scriptural function of the Bible as a sacred text behind his theories of language, violence, translation and history. Through many convincing evidences and illustrations throughout Benjamin's writings, the point Brian Britt tries to make is that the metaphysical and theological elements of Benjamin's thought come from a ＂self-obscuring and self-effacing text＂ behind his writing-the Bible. Brian Britt's way of interpreting the relation of Benjamin and the Bible emphasizes the scriptural function other than the exact quotations of the Bible in his writing. For example, Benjamin also sees the Christian Bible as the central force behind Western conception of history, however what he stresses is the Hebrew resources for Christianity to restore pure language and the Messiah. It resorts to Benjamin's Cultural Zionism Project to retrieve, through historical traces of loss, the archive of pure language-The Bible. The idea of the textual sacredness exerts from the Bible is crucial to Benjamin's critical practice of his Cultural Zionism Project. In his Essay on Language and Trauerspiel study, One-way Street, Towards the Critique of Violence, etc. Benjamin makes a comparison of the sacred text (pure language) with profane text (historical, linguistic facts), He also describes the process of the degradation and instrumentalization of the language. The idea of fulfilled Messianic time as human beings' hope predominates throughout his writing. In sum, Brian Britt presents a series of theological and illuminating perspectives that help us perceive Benjamin's intricate and subtle interpretations of the Bible in his writing.
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