...Helena M. Tomko In October 1931 Walter Benjamin published a “shattering review” of Virgil, Father of the West , by Theodor Haecker, a Catholic cultural critic. Though most critical interest in this review has seen it as a footnote to Benjamin’s intellectual development, the present article argues...

..., which encouraged him to subsume the divine in the mundane. For the other, Hei- degger’s secularism was merely the inevitable consequence of a Protestant 59. Here, in GK, 71, Przywara quotes Søren Kierkegaard, Die Tagebücher, ed. Theodor Haecker, vol. 2 (Innsbruck: Brenner, 1923), 331–32...

... of monarchy.22 By the time Peterson arrived in Bonn in 1924, he had heard about Schmitt in the Munich circle of Theodor Haecker (1879–1945), where they may even have met in passing.23 In Bonn he quickly became a close friend of Schmitt. They met at least once a week, and Schmitt asked Peterson...