... that Benjamin’s engagement with what he saw as the authoritarian language mysticism of his Catholic contemporary highlights linguistic, theological, and cultural questions that preoccupied both translators-cum-philosophers. Benjamin’s and Haecker’s language theories shaped their responses to the Third Reich, one...

... Sells, Mystical Languages of Unsaying (Chi- cago: University of Chicago Press, 1994), 2–3 (hereafter cited as ML); and the section “Apophasis” in this essay. 4 Lamenting Language Itself of lamentation by using techniques like double negation and self-cancellation. The apophatic aporia...

... Jewish culture has forgotten the religious meaning of its language and has completely ignored its mystical and messianic conno- tations in favor of its secular communicative function. Nevertheless, Scholem still seemed optimistic about a possible return of religion. He suggested that the religious...

... widened his scope to include the production of English-language essays on broader religious themes, such as prayer and piety, many of them published in academic journals. 11 He left Cincinnati in 1945, taking a position as associate professor of Jewish ethics and mysticism at the Jewish Theological...

... in a new role: not as the great innovator of Jewish life but as a part of a German Jewish tradition dating at least to Maimon's time. © 2014 by New German Critique, Inc. 2014 Reading Gershom Scholem in Context: Salomon Maimon’s and Gershom Scholem’s German Jewish Discourse on Jewish Mysticism...

... to his reflections on American writers and scholars in the final third of his career. © 2017 by New German Critique, Inc. 2017 Gershom Scholem Kabbalah Sabbatai Sevi Jewish mysticism America References Abrams Daniel . 2000 . “Defining Modern Academic Scholarship: Gershom...

... , 2012 . Mendes-Flohr Paul . From Mysticism to Dialogue: Martin Buber’s Transformation of German Social Thought . Detroit : Wayne State University Press , 1989 . Nietzsche Friedrich . The Anti-Christ . In “Twilight of the Idols” and “The Anti-Christ.” Translated by Hollingdale...

...,” a move that subtends his position- ing of photogénie as somewhat mystical, undefinable—a “you either get it or you don’t” phenomenon. It is not accidental, then, that a privileging of the face (or the advocacy of a universal language that often accompanies it) is coincident with a claim...

... what someone can do with passion . 17 Though Weber was in many ways an “interdisciplinary generalist,” he also “embodied the new trend to specialist language.” 18 Here he describes the painful pleasure of putting on “blinders” and paying maniacal attention to just one thing. Narrow focus...

... a language of secular identity for Jews outside the communal fold, it also inadvertently fed into suspicions that Judaic patterns of thought were entering into the mainstream and turning everyone in the West into “Jews.” © 2012 by New German Critique, Inc. 2012 The Birth of the “Psychological Jew...

... contradiction between Benjamin’s Marxist views and his continued attach- ment to a mystical theory of language (263). Leaving aside the debate over the changing function of theology in Benjamin’s thinking, the key point is that practical faith in God as this is described in the essay on Elective Affinities...

...; that is, reorienting Judaism to a golden age Islam of science, philosophy, and attentiveness to Greek philosophy, mathematics, medicine, and language arts. To perform that function, of course, Islam, too, required purging—of Sufism, Shiism, and other elements too similar to the mysticism and apocalypticism...

...” (“Islam and Protestantism he divides religions into two types, the “mystical” and the “rationalistic.”30 Doing so enables him to make an analogy between the great schism between “mystical” Catholicism and “rationalistic” Protestantism and the supposed schism between “mystical” Buddhism...

...: Palgrave Macmillan, 2009), is a brief account that cites no German-language sources. 5. See, e.g., Douglas R. Howland, Translating the West: Language and Political Reason in Nineteenth-Century Japan (Honolulu: University of Hawaii Press, 2002); and Andrew Sartori, Ben- gal in Global Concept...

... was “no intellectual, but rather an inspired mystic in the mediaeval German tradition.”7 Furtwängler himself wrote that Bruckner had been “in fact, not a musician. This musician was, in truth, a successor to the old German mystics: [Meister] Eckhart, Jakob Böhme, etc.”8 This then was certainly a tradition...

... place, he proposes a type of cognition of a quasi-mystical nature that is rooted in feeling and made manifest in images rather than language. Wor­ ringer thus locates empathy, which is equated here with intuition, on a fine border of working with the “means of science” yet, at the same time, beyond...

... 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...

... notable figures of twentieth-century German Jewish letters, considered Goldberg’s magnum opus, Die Wirklichkeit der Hebräer , and Heidegger’s Sein und Zeit , published in 1927, “the two great metaphysical expositions of the world and human existence published in the German language in the interwar...

..., NY: Camden House, 2002), 11, 21. 32 Heimat and the “Spatial Turn” notion of Heimat—foregrounds a rich notion of place, one inseparably linked to other dimensions, including climate, vegetation, language, human interac- tion, and local cultural traditions.14 Within the larger objective...

.... 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...