Benjamin read Kafka’s messianism as a theologico-political remnant

Evidence

But what remains, what remains lying on the ground without ground, also remains to be read as remnant, as theologico-political remnant. We have begun to read the messianic as it inscribes itself in “The Savages.” We must still attend to those who have remained, andremained abandoned, those savages. — Gil Anidjar, The Jew, the Arab, 756

Categorization

• STORYSTEM: ‘Those who have remained remained abandoned, those savages’ is a seed for fiction about the abandoned who outlast systems — people surviving in overfilled attics, on the ground without ground.
• XREF: connects to: Benjamin secularized Jewish messianism into his Marxist theory of revolutionary time — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 600; Benjamin’s Marxism retained a Talmudic exegetical mode of thought — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 599; Benjamin’s own work fused mysticism and modern urban experience — Martin Jay, The Dialectical Imagination: A History…, 1494 (+2 more)