This is the first comprehensive examination of the implications of the messianic turn within contemporary thought. It will be of appeal to students and scholars working in the fields of cultural studies; philosophy; religious studies; politics and international relations and literary studies. This book was published as a special issue of the Journal of Cultural Research.

Acknowledgements Arthur Bradley 1. Introduction: On a Newly Arisen Messianic Tone in Philosophy Arthur Bradley and Paul Fletcher 2. The Apostate Messiah: Scholem, Taubes and the Occlusions of Sabbatai Zevi Howard Caygill 3. Locating the Messianic: In Search of Causation and Benjamin's Last Message Eric Jacobson 4. Levinas's Weak Messianism in Time and Flesh, or The Insistence of Messiah Ben David Bettina Bergo 5. Tarrying with the Apocalypse: The Wary Messianism of Rosenzweig and Levinas Agata Bielik-Robson 6. The Messianic Idea, the Time of Capital and the Everyday William Large 7. Impersonal Speech: Blanchot, Virno, Messianism Lars Iyer 8. Time, Language and the Destruction of Power Franson Manjali 9. Two Versions of Islam and the Apocalypse: The Persistence of Eschatology in Schlegel, Baudrillard and Zizek Ian Almond 10. Left Behind: The Messianic without Sovereignty Jeffrey W. Robbins 11. Redemptive Remnants: Agamben's Human Messianism Patrick O'Connor 12. Why the People To Come Will Not, and Must Not, Be Sovereign: Notes on a Political and Mathematical Puzzle Soumyabrata Choudhury 13. The Long Take: Messianic Time in Andrei Tarkovsky's Nostalghia Gerard Loughlin