A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history.
 
Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought. To grasp the complexities of Jewish messianism in modernity, the book focuses on diverse notions of “dynamic repetition” in the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.
 

"“Sharvit offers an exciting reorientation of a well-studied segment of the Jewish philosophical canon. By aligning repetition with messianism, he reads and rereads major figures of the German-Jewish tradition to uncover possible new lines of thought in their work. . . . Dynamic Repetition is a wonderful analysis of these writers and texts and should be of major interest to those with any level of experience in this field.”" - Germanic Review

"“Sharvit’s insights offer a profound and illuminating perspective on the interplay between historical continuity and transformative change, making this work an indispensable contribution to the study of modern Jewish philosophy.”" - Journal of Interdisciplinary History of Ideas