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... work provoked by Zemach’s translation, the article examines the question of the implied ties between translation and reconciliation and the particular political, moral, and religious challenges raised by putting Heidegger’s philosophy into Hebrew, the holy language. Copyright © 2018 by New German...

... translation of the Bahir fulfilled a requirement for a doctoral degree, but this fact should not conceal the significance of the act. Scholem translated a book from Hebrew and Aramaic into German, that is, from the holy languages into the language of science. 48. Scholem does not divulge in his...

... of the holy. Otto’s Phenomenological Analysis of the Religious Experience Otto invents what in the German language amounts to a neologism, das Numinöse (the numinous). With this technical term Otto wants to distance his analysis of the holy from, among other things, the Kantian understanding...

... relevant contributions from the religious language into a publicly accessi- ble language.”2 To avoid the potential clash of civilizations that threatens to polarize the West and the Muslim world, Habermas calls on Western thought to demon- strate that modernity and democracy need not have...

... in 2005, was enormously successful. The critics loved it, and it has been translated into many languages. The German edition, Das Komplott, has the subtitle Die wahre Geschichte der “Protokolle der Weisen von Zion” (The True Story of the “Protocols of the Elders of Zion Extensive commentaries...

... to acclaim you as one of its own kidney. It is better that you preserve that aristocratic aloofness, and permit us . . . spirits of finer fire to make pilgrimages to your holy of holies in order to refresh ourselves...

.... Holocaust Memorial Museum, one of two in which the second cache was buried, has become an icon. Though a limited number of Oyneg Shabes texts have appeared in anthologies,3 the corpus remains largely untranslated, even largely unpublished in its original languages. Sam- uel D. Kassow’s magisterial...

... of God signals precisely such an “unsayable” limit. While this holy name belongs to language, it is a name forbidden to be pronounced aloud. In this sense, the name of God is silent, and it is related to the inexpressible aspect of language. Upon hearing the pronouncing of this unique name by the high...

... opponent of a profane human self-knowledge. True, this is ultimately only a question of termi- nology, whether the human problematic should be thought through in a holy language or a simply profane way. All contemporary Protestant theology, from Karl Barth through the different Nordic ways of belief...

...-political language. Mitscherlich was also an effective public intellectual, serving as “the conscience of the nation,” a “gentle repentance-preacher.” Precisely what worked so well in the West German context was, however, anathema in America. This article explores the reasons for the depoliticized version...

... , no. 2 : 8 – 24 . ———. 1932 . “The Message of the Holy Prophet Muhammad to Europe.” Pts. 1–3 . Islamic Review 20 , no. 2 : 222 – 39 ; 20, no. 8: 268–79; 20, no. 9: 281–86 . ———. 1951 . “Warum ich Moslem wurde.” Nachlass Hugo Marcus . ———. 1952 . Rechtswelt und Ästhetik . Bonn...

... that charismatic leadership may not be a form of rational dom- ination. Insofar as charisma is nourished by affective, psychological, and psy- chopathological states, it does not possess, for Weber, anything edifying or sublime. Rather, it must be compared “to the kind of revelation found in the Holy Book...

... with hate is not singular in literary history. “I never fell in love,” wrote Karl Kraus, the great German-language satirist; “I always fell in hate.” 4 In his characterization of the propulsive literary power of hate, however, Lukács assigns a political function to the affect, informed by his Marxist...

... in the West. In the realm of the Orthodox Church, in Old Russia, the introduction of print was likewise seen as a vicious attack on God’s solid order of the world of faith. The combination of printing and the reform of the Russian language, which was regarded as holy in Russian Ortho- doxy...

... targets less Wagner’s operas than their audience. Wit is how these critics sought to rescue Wagner from his dev- otees and themselves from Wagner. Rescuing the Holy Family I begin with the final scene of the 1943 film Hi Diddle Diddle, directed by Andrew L. Stone. The film pairs Adolphe Menjou...

... became professor of Oriental languages at the University of Leipzig in 1835, had, like Freytag, trained under Sacy in France, where scholars were busy analyzing the treasure trove of documents that Napoléon’s scholars had brought back from Middle East expeditions.13 Bonn remained a smaller center...

... the great German musical tradition superior to any other. They shared what Robin Holloway has with reference to Adorno called “the serious Teuton’s contempt . . . for lack of grounding in the loamy musical culture of central Europe.”3 That Hans Sachs’s heil’ge deutsche Kunst (holy German art) dare...

... and stability. Conse- quently, the book serves a quasi-religious function and is meant to inherit the mantle of the holy books of the great world religions. This explains the ten- sion between, on the one hand, the use of technical and industrial media by 1. Albrecht Koschorke and Konstantin Kaminskij...

... Performance of Lessing’s Laocoön .” Modern Language Notes 102 , no. 3 ( 1987 ): 483 – 521 . Jameson Fredric . “ Hegel and Picture-Thinking; or, An Episode in the History of Allegory .” In “Hegel(’s) Today,” edited by Hamza Agon and Ruda Frank . Special issue, Crisis and Critique...

... the gathering horrors of totalitarianism “to the point of exact detail”—in 1914, no less. “He was, in a literal sense, a prophet.” Language and Silence: Essays, 1958–1966 (Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1969), 163. Michael André Bernstein criticized such “backshadowing” in Foregone Conclusions: Against...