Graduation Semester and Year
2023
Language
English
Document Type
Thesis
Degree Name
Master of Arts in English
Department
English
First Advisor
Jacqueline Fay
Abstract
This thesis seeks to reveal the messianic potentialities that inhere in the fundamental categories of experience. I analyze diverse sources in western intellectual history, from the classical period to our contemporary epoch, to discern techniques to think through our collective malaise, that is to both identify the dynamics that have produced our malaise and how to use thought and recognition as acts of generative resistance. I will argue throughout that the common modalities of experience: language, space, and historicity, even if they reveal themselves as lack, through their (dis)concealment gesture at messianic forms of life, and I will try to conceptualize these forms as dispositives we can use to renew existence.
Keywords
Messianism, Being, Political theology
Disciplines
Arts and Humanities | English Language and Literature
License
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Recommended Citation
Vernon, Khalif M., "RECOGNIZING POSSIBILITY: REFLECTIONS ON THE MESSIANIC DIMENSIONS OF BEING, LANGUAGE, AND SPACE" (2023). English Theses. 117.
https://mavmatrix.uta.edu/english_theses/117
Comments
Degree granted by The University of Texas at Arlington