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... to produce a theory of charisma, Melville and Weber are drawing on the same source, King Ahab of the Old Testament. Based on these biblical traces in Melville and Weber, this article proposes a new reading both of Moby-Dick and of Weber's theory of charismatic leadership. © 2011 by New German Critique, Inc...

... of trash, and hallucinations of King Kong is a nuanced strategy for acknowledging the historical presence of the Allied air raids and the human costs of aerial warfare from the perspective of the street. © 2010 by New German Critique, Inc. 2010 I am grateful to Andreas Huyssen for his generosity...

... as a possible answer to the questions raised by the “empty place of power” in modernity (Claude Lefort) after the demise of the political theology of monarchy. Weber's theory of charisma can be read as a synthesis of two discourses, which both react to the downfall of the king. On the one hand, Weber takes up...

... surpasses all of the others, suggests that they “ride off and see with [their] own eyes just what sort of wives [they have] got” (Rise, 66). And there is a clear winner, at least as far as chastity is concerned: while the daughters-in-law of King Tarquin are discovered passing the time...

... is Achilles redivivus, Caesar is Alexander reborn; John F. Kennedy revives King Arthur’s court (Camelot), Ronald Reagan is the cowboy riding out of the west for whom most issues can be resolved with a punch in the nose or a shot from a six-gun. Charisma itself, however difficult to define precisely...

... by Dreijmanis John . Translated by Whelan Robert J. . New York : Paragon House , 1989 . King John Owen . The Iron of Melancholy: Structures of Spiritual Conversion in America from the Puritan Conscience to Victorian Neurosis . Middletown, CT : Wesleyan University Press , 1983...

..., the Greek city of Iolkos. When this plan fails, Medea, in Euripides’s version, uses a ruse that results in the death of Jason’s uncle Pelias, who occupies the throne of Iolkos. This forces Jason and Medea to flee to the Greek city of Corinth, where they are offered shelter by King Creon. Politically, Jason...

... of Wenders's career from that of a filmmaker who also takes photographs to someone for whom the photographic image—its history and temporal implications—plays a central role in his creative practice. © 2015 by New German Critique, Inc. 2015 photography film belatedness Kings of the Road...

... to which tragic and comic art has long been put to, in Shakespearean terms, catch the conscience of our kings. When Hamlet staged the play within a play to catch the conscience of a king who had no right to be king, he aimed to catch the conscience also of his audience, within and without the play...

... the distinguished guests at the entrance to the palace that he represents; and though he shoulders the suitcases himself—for this is what duty demands—he is nonetheless a king, a master of his realm. And it could be thus for all eternity, if age spared the kings and the manager did not one day notice that the heavy...

... : MIT Press . Habermas Jürgen Luhmann Niklas . 1971 . Theorie der Gesellschaft oder Sozialtechnologie—Was leistet die Systemforschung? Frankfurt am Main : Suhrkamp . King Michael Thornhill Chris . 2003 . Niklas Luhmann's Theory of Politics and Law . Houndmills...

... by Ernst H. Kantorowicz, The King’s Two Bodies: A Study in Mediaeval Political Theology (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1957). I analyze the intricate relationship of Kantorowicz and Schmitt in some detail in “Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson on the Problem of Political Theology,” 32–37...

... with her Trojan lover, Helen actually inverts Horkheimer and Adorno’s formula, bridging the gap between Penelope and Circe. By returning to her husband in Sparta, Helen fullls her sociopolitical role as a king’s wife. Thus, like Penelope, Helen pre- serves the patriarchal order that dominates her...

... Hoard . New York : Fromm . Hoving Thomas . 1981 . King of the Confessors . New York : Simon and Schuster . ———. 2015 . “Super Art Gems of New York City.” artnet , www.artnet.com/magazine/FEATURES/hoving/hoving9-27-01.asp (accessed July 18, 2015) . Ilnytzky Ula . 2015...

... ; LaFay, Hannah Arendt and the Specter of Totalitarianism , chaps. 3–4; and King, Arendt and America , 297–318 . See also Haddock, Roberts, and Sutch, Evil in Contemporary Political Theory , in which most of the essays engage in one form or another with Arendt’s concept of the banality of evil...

... and called Jesus, and said unto him, art thou the King of the Jews? Jesus answered him, Sayest thou this thing of thyself, or did others tell it thee of me? Pilate answered, Am I a Jew? Thine own nation and the chief priests have delivered thee unto me: what hast thou done? Jesus...

... within the shell of premodern political institutions; and the persistence of feudal mentalities—were no more exceptional than those of the countries that, like the United Kingdom and France, had beheaded their kings. 1 The conceit of a “special path” supposes a paradigm that is far from established...

... that revolution need not have involved the simple replacement of one secular authority (king) with another (people) but done away with the need for authority altogether. But Arendt insists that the American Revolution, though it occurred in the isolated Eden of a new con- tinent, showed that all...

... arguing consuming the city, escape on a walk through the country, accompanied by their two pet birds. The humans hit on the idea to seek out a once-powerful king who has been transformed into a feared bird. They find him, and he gath- ers his subjects to hear a proposal by the humans. (It turns out...

... should see the statues that look like his face. . . . Stahlmann asked what he had in common between him and the divine kings whose graves were erected here, but his guide told him he would see the answer later when the moon had risen” ( AW , 979). When they take the moonlight tour of Bayon, they see...