... transitory and thereby contingent by eschatology. On this latter point there is an interesting parallel of Peterson to Walter Benjamin. An assessment of the aftermath of the debate shows that Peterson's arguments hold and that the denial of political theology by Peterson implied a principled, albeit...

.... At issue is in part the political and the eschatological dimensions of the Pauline usage of klēsis and of related political-theological concepts at work in Martin Luther, Max Weber, and Agamben. The essay should be read as a point of departure for two considerations that seem of particular interest...

... by New German Critique, Inc. 2019 critique of modernity idea of progress eschatology philosophy of history Christianity The “postsecularism debate” has dominated various academic fields for over a decade now, and its core issue, the relation between modernity and religion, is still...

... by Blumenberg, such as the correlation between the notion of modern progress and the messianic-eschatological impulse in monotheistic theology, or the view that Western rationalism in its modern form incarnates the religious praxis of asceticism. In characterizing these views as metaphysical, Schmitt...

..., in contrast to Scholem and Buber, resists all forms of “neutralizing” history as nothing more than a product of human power struggles without any relation to eschatology. Both Scholem and Buber want to establish a sharp dividing line between messianism and the political forces that shape history...

... and Nancy were thus not just interested in uncovering the religious origins of modernity: they wanted to show how the history of the West is actually a man- ifestation of a single, albeit very dynamical, force—Christianity for Nancy, messianism and eschatology for Taubes. To understand the full...

...- tological visions of history. Nazism was eschatological with different engage- ments with the end of history. One Nazi version of the end—embraced by Hitler—imagines the movement of time toward a moment of salvation, a redemptive adunation of time in this world. The eschaton becomes immanen- tized...

...- sianism as a “substitute for eschatology” (RR, 290). If it is the merit of the prophets to generate the future in the opening of the futural, then it is Ezekiel who fi rst severed the unholy power of the past. For Ezekiel was the fi rst to put forth the idea of a single individual in his or her...

... Press , 2003 . Jennings Michael . “ Towards Eschatology: The Development of Walter Benjamin’s Theological Politics in the Early 1920s .” In Walter Benjamins anthropologisches Denken , edited by Duttlinger Carolin , Morgan Ben , and Phelan Anthony , 21 – 58 . Freiburg...

... as a ‘substitute for eschatology Cohen’s understanding of human weakness was grounded in his interpretation of Jew- Nitzan Lebovic 5 ish sources and was embraced by Benjamin in turn. The tradition Deuber- Mankowsky describes conveys a different theoretical...

..., historical explication can never return the pregnant to a Cartesian clarity and distinctness but only leads to a critical “intensifi cation” of an ultimately eschatological potential.63 Yet if the involution of conceptual pregnancy provokes the immediate anticipation (Naherwartung) of the rupture...

.... Taubes: Time Is Distress Five years after the publication of Buber’s Prophets, Taubes, a young scholar from an Orthodox Galician family, published Abendländische Eschatologie (Occidental Eschatology), an investigation of the potential of a new history embedded in an eschatological perspective...

... of Art.” 38. Quoted in Meier, “Death as God,” 50 . 39. Wolfe, Heidegger’s Eschatology ; Wolfe, Heidegger and Theology . 40. Meier, “Death as God,” 51 . Copyright © 2021 by New German Critique, Inc. 2021 The importance of Martin Heidegger’s philosophy to Leo...

... of the nonexistence of a deity. In that sense its phantasmic power, just like that of communism—hence its appeal to Bloch, Badiou, and Žižek—lies in its very universal impossibility and eschatological- evental appeal. This means that the incomplete subjectivization of the individual—as represented...

... University Press . Marasco Robyn . 2015 . The Highway of Despair: Critical Theory after Hegel . New York : Columbia University Press . Martel James . 2011 . Divine Violence: Walter Benjamin and the Eschatology of Sovereignty . New York : Routledge . Martel James . 2011...

... and anxiety that in turn leads to the formation of an ethic of compulsive work, in this case the anxious prophet becomes a lightning rod who terrifies his audience into a passionate observance of the Jewish law. As Weber explains, “The pressing emotional timeliness of the eschatological expectation was all...

..., Christianity emphasized the moment of grace, although that, too, is contained in Judaism, in God’s covenant with men and in the Messianic promise” (DE, 145). In the doctrine of grace, the free expression of God’s love, Christianity maintains the eschatological promise of Judaism, the promise...

...-Evangeliums” (“The Eschatology of the Gospel of St. John In setting up the problem, Bultmann followed Barth’s example. He remarked on the absolute transcendence of God, and thus humanity’s banishment to the World: “Man comes to everything that he does from the world, as one who is himself world” (EJE...

... century, did not dare to use. Leonardo went by a Neptunian eschatology: a world ruled by weathering and erosion, the ablation of mountains and even continents, the replenishment of the depths of the sea. The world would be in the end what could only qualify her as a heavenly body: a perfect sphere whose...

... sometimes been called the left-wing Heidegger: because he too took di Fiore’s idea of the Third Reich and, instead of rejecting it as fascist and eschatological, maintained that the Left had missed a vital trick by not occupying it for its own universal rather than racial, particularist...