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This paper examines and compares Apostle Paul’s concept of ‘ho nyn kairos,’ Benjamin’s concept of ‘jetztzeit, and Agamben’s philosophical archaeology. Paul’s kairos is the time of crisis where the past and the present enter into the a constellation in the form of typological relation and recapitulation. What matters to Agamben is the tension that clasps together and transforms past and present. He interprets this contraction of past and present at the decisive moment to be the main feature of Benjamin’s ‘jetztzeit,’ where the past is charged with now-time. For Benjamin, only the redeemed mankind is granted the fullness of its past through historical apocatastasis. In his mystical conception of history, the secular dynamics of history corresponds to the Messianic order in this paradoxical tension. Through philosophical archaeology, Agamben attempts to inquire into a sort of historical a priori, which is inscribed within a history and that can only constitute itself a posteriori with respect to this history. We see the paradoxical aspect of an ‘a priori’ condition, in which the past can be experienced only in and through its inherent forgetting, to be one of the main features of Paul’s recapitulation and Benjamin’s historical apocatastasis.
