Messianic time and monetary value

Michael J. Thate

doi:10.3390/rel7090112

Messianic time and monetary value

Michael J. Thate

Keller Center for Innovation in Engineering Education

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In this essay we return to Walter Benjamin’s notion of messianic time as outlined in his Theses on the Philosophy of History. Messianic time is read with Benjamin’s Sonnette as a "divestment" from historical time. That is, messianic time is a relinquishing of historical time’s formation of identities within late capitalism. Messianism represents that opening which whispers the possibility of bringing asymmetrical accumulation and subjective formation to a standstill. The aim of the essay is thus to push a rereading of Benjamin’s notion of messianic time as subjective divestment from historical time which in turn breaks the uneven distribution of time, accumulation, and the monetary value of market time at work in our current world of global finance.

Original language	English (US)
Article number	112
Journal	Religions
Volume	7
Issue number	9
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3390/rel7090112
State	Published - Sep 2016

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Religious studies

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Messianism
Money
Time
Value
Walter benjamin

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