In Sharvit’s brilliant interpretation, the “messianic drive” of the four major Jewish thinkers of late modernity – Franz Rosenzweig, Franz Kafka, Walter Benjamin, and Sigmund Freud – is … based on a “dynamic repetition,” conceived not as a compulsion to repeat and stabilize, but as an impulse to reach forward into the future through innovation….It is, in fact, a repetition that
becomes the motor of history conceived as the ever-recurring potentiality of the new….Sharvit’s book is a great speculative contribution to the fast-growing field of Jewish philosophy.
