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Walter Benjamin, writing on Kafka and the concept of redemption in modernity, relates how redemption is premised on the past. Freud turns our attention to science as the only provable, explanatory form of redemption available, and that redemption resides in the psyche of the individual. He scoffs at the concept of a religious form of redemption from a being who cannot be proved to exist. Experimental writing style similar to Benjamin "On the Concept of History" used. Bibliography lists 3 sources. jvMessia.rtf
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the concept, stating that redemption is not redemption of the individual, but redemption of the past. Out of the channeling of history to the purpose or cause, Benjamin proffers, society
reaps redemption and the individual is removed from the picture, except as an instrument of redemption. Benjamin focuses on Kafka to make his point.
II Freud turns our attention to science as the only provable, explanatory form of redemption available, and that redemption resides in
the psyche of the individual. He scoffs at the concept of a religious form of redemption from a being who cannot be proved to exist. Freud basis his form of
redemption on the concept of "happiness" as an attainable mode of relating to the world by an individual. III
Kafka did not succumb to the temptation offered by the history that preceded him, the one in which myth offered redemption, writes Benjamin. With cunning, Kafka
inserted "tricks" into his legends as proof "that inadequate, even childish measures may also serve as a means of rescue" (Benjamin, Death, 799). Rescue, in Kafka, is messianic transformation of
the past into the present. IV Freud, mocking Hermann Cohens belief in religion as the
mere belief of God, something that cannot be proved to exist. He does so by stating that "only religion can answer the question of the purpose of life," and then
following the statement with rationale for mens behaviour (Freud 23). The reason for this particular argument, the student may note, is to show the childishness in the belief and make
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