The notion of messianic time seems to evoke an aporia that refuses dialectical resolution with Aufhebung as the operative concept of a speculative—dialectical determination of historical time — the messianic aporia that is how to think of messianic coming which is here and now, a future arriving which is, at the same time, a here and now. This demands a rigor of thinking that ventures beyond the dialectical aporia to think of an existential coming, irreducible to the predicative determination that is intimately tied to the metaphysical thinking of language guided by the logical notion of judgement. This article takes Schelling's notion of Scheidung — meaning both “de-cision” and “cision” — to consider a coming beyond the predicative process of dialectical history. Hence, the de-cision, which is the cision of ground and existence as a non-conditional opening for the coming to presence, cannot be thought of on the basis of Aufhebung. It has a relation to a time that falls outside dialectical—speculative time and remains as a remnant, and also points towards the messianic coming of redemption that remains beyond death. Thinking means venturing beyond. (Bloch 1986, p. 5)
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