...Bruce Rosenstock Abstract The article argues that Martin Heidegger and Oskar Goldberg share a common gnostic motif of the “flight of the gods from the earth” and that both thinkers seek to prepare their people (the Germans, the Jews) for a “second beginning” of metaphysics that would restore...

... decisively with the Western tradition and what he understood to be its inherent catastrophic tendencies. Drawing on the studies of ancient Jewish religious experience by his friend and teacher Oskar Goldberg, Unger developed the argument that the conditio sine qua non for this new politics would...