... theology as it plays out in his philosophy of history as well as his historical anthropology and lays a particular emphasis on the peculiar role that the figure of Judaism plays in them. © 2013 by New German Critique, Inc. 2013 Beyond Gnosticism and Magic...

... and prejudices and of misreading the autonomy of literature as an end in itself. Foster establishes this position by looking at Stanley Corngold's essay “Adorno's ‘Notes on Kafka,’” particularly Adorno's account of Kafka's “gnosticism.” Foster then draws on Adorno's recently published lectures on aesthetics...

... of an aesthetics of “failure” that observes das Bilderverbot , veils a messianic vision of justice. Benjamin's gnostic picture of modernity as a bureaucratic prison house reflects Josef K.'s victimized view of his situation in The Trial . Hans Blumenberg's therapeutic account of myth suggests a view of Kafka's...

...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...

... : Harvard University Press . Bloom Harold . 1975 . Kabbalah and Criticism . New York : Seabury . ———. 1987 . “Scholem: Unhistorical or Jewish Gnosticism.” In Gershom Scholem: Modern Critical Views , edited by Bloom Harold , 207 – 20 . New York : Chelsea House . Campanini...

... here than a mere historiography of Jewish heresy. Scholem was using heresy to deter- Willem Styfhals 187 mine the normative identity of Judaism and its role in modern culture. Focus- ing on the heresies of gnosticism and Pantheism in Scholem’s work...

... is to ease the burden of the absolute, and culture is work on that distance. That, I think, is what Blumenberg’s philosophy is about. It is what The Legitimacy of the Modern Age is about. Humans cannot bear God; that is why they invented, as the first overcoming of Gnosticism, the Middle Ages...

..., see Kaufmann, “Beyond Gnosticism and Magic.” 70. Adorno, Aesthetic Theory, 54. 71. Adorno, Minima Moralia, 222. 72. Lehrich, Occult Mind, 117. Martin Jay  23 meanings.’ ” 73 The citation at the end of this sentence comes from Adorno’s...

.... At about the same time, he identifi ed Paul as the locus classicus of the gnostic spirit of late antiquity. Paul, it seems, was a gnostic, and Barth his reincarnation. Still others identifi ed Paul with Marcion, indeed, took Marcion at his word when he claimed to be Paul’s greatest disciple.24...

... of Gnosticism,” while fascinating in Blumenberg’s detailed delineation as the origin and legitimacy of modernity, is not exactly a barn burner as a programmatic statement. 23. For a partial examination of Blumenberg’s relation to Heidegger (and Husserl), see my entry “Sorge” in Blumenberg Lesen...

... indirect evidence for the notion that the two men had ceased to engage intellectually. On that visit to New York, Scholem gave the Israel Goldstein Lectures at the JTS. He published those lectures two years later as Jewish Gnosticism, Merkabah Mysticism, and Talmudic Tradition , thanking in the brief...

... and theoretically, to domesticate and distance ourselves from the relentless indifference of the real. Escape from the world—the temptation of world-denying gnosticism—is fruitless, although the temptation to do so always remains. Thus modernity, Blumenberg argued, could be understood as entail- ing...

... ; Trierweiler, review of Work on Myth , 155 ; Lindahl, “Macht en rationaliteit,” 10 ; Ingram, “Blumenberg and the Philosophical Grounds of Historiography,” 5 ; Palti, “In Memoriam,” 504 ; Yack, “Myth and Modernity,” 253 ; Bouwsma, review of Legitimacy , 698. 42. Lazier, “Overcoming Gnosticism...

..., uniqueness, individuality, and contingency 2. Ibid., 198. 3. See Tom Gunning, “In Your Face: Physiognomy, Photography, and the Gnostic Mission of Early Film,” Modernism/Modernity 4, no. 1 (1997): 1–29; John Caspar Lavater, Essays on Physi- ognomy (London: Whittingam, 1804); Charles Darwin...

... it, but Bloch’s purpose is thus quasi-Gnostic, in that he uses the concept of time and humanity’s separation from the world in time to reconcile with the world and its completion as something that cannot yet be comprehended. He sees no separate ontology but that of incomplete- ness, so that the transitive...

... Being and Event, the event often emerges as an irruption, taking on a quasi- miraculous significance reminiscent of some of the Gnostic-utopian thinkers of the 1920s. The main difference between the two here resides in the gap between being and becoming. While Badiou asserts the primacy of being...

... words, without the hope that things might improve with time, the heinous aspects of the world and its ways would become immortalized in thought and creation itself would be turned into the work of a gnostic demon. . . . Too little that is good has power in the world for the world to be said to have...

... Theology between Polytheism and Gnosticism .” Political Theology 20 , no. 6 ( 2019 ): 472 – 97 . Weber Max . From Max Weber: Essays in Sociology . Edited by Gerth H. H. and Mills C. Wright . New York : Oxford University Press , 1946 . Wolin Richard . “ Biblical...

... that interpretation has been in various doctrinal traditions, it lacks textual support. To see the Son sacrificedby the Father is but a variation on archaic sacrifice. Girard’s revision slides toward the Gnostic belief that Jesus did not merely foresee his trial and execution and face the ordeal without...

..., and then takes it as a “handmaiden” into its service. 38. It is for this reason that some neo-scholastics even came to embrace Baruch Spinoza to oppose the dialectical theologians’ gnosticism. See Benjamin Lazier, God Interrupted (Princeton, NJ: Prince­ ton University Press, 2008), esp. 67–68, 80–82...