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... 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...

... 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...

... law. Precisely those aspects of Judaism that these Jewish scholars despised—mysticism, pietism, apocalypticism—they also ignored in their representations of Islam. The identification with Islam was part of a larger project of modern Jewish thinkers to “purify” Judaism of religious excess—pietism...

...Willem Styfhals The story of the renowned scholar of Jewish mysticism Gershom Scholem and his disloyal student Jacob Taubes was one of continuing intellectual quarrel and personal enmity. Their intellectual disagreements centered on Jewish messianism, but the significance of this issue for Taubes’s...

... broadly intellectual distance. [email protected] [email protected] Copyright © 2023 by New German Critique, Inc. 2023 Judaism Hasidism mysticism history of scholarship Between the spring of 1940 and the summer of 1953, Gershom Scholem (1897–1982) and Abraham Joshua Heschel...

... 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...

... 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...

... ; Schwartz, “Politicization of the Mystical,” 210–15 . 6. Hanssen, “‘Dichtermut’ and ‘Blödigkeit,’” 39–40 . 7. Lowy, “Revolution against Progress,” 45, 47 . 8. “Every rebellion, especially every anarchism, that pays tribute to the moralistic idols constructed for the defense of society...

...” (“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...

... subjects—in this case, not prophets but mystics: “I must experience these mental states to understand their consequences. I have to confess this, although I myself am ‘unmusical’ in religion.” 68 As Joachim Radkau writes, “Later [Weber] wrote about mysticism and felt competent to analyze the states...

...,” 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...

... 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...

..., has been shaping itself in an unbroken line since the days of the Pharaohs,” he wrote, admitting that his insistence on the transmission of a “dynamic force in Jew- ish genius” did at first “smack of mysticism.”75 Abraham Brill, the leading popularizer of psychoanalysis in the United States...

... was to reproduce reality, specifically the calm, enigmatic, and timeless stirrings of nature: “Nature is ready-made poetry; we simply did not have the tools to reproduce it in a genuine way.”21 For Häfker, film technology had the unique ability to capture the mysticism of nature. However, his espousal...

... to prophesize and work wonders. “By using ‘charisma’ instead of the simple, generally understood word ‘gift’ [‘Begabung he objected, “Weber brings a mystical element into the subcon- scious during this whole discussion, which does not promote clarity.”48 The kind of magical aura that Weber imputed...

... that discourse: the Left’s countermemory purportedly exposed the nefarious and politically motivated obfuscations of a “bourgeois” Jewish memory of “mysticism” and misplaced reverence. Novick undertook to expose precisely the hidden politics he saw under- lying Leyvik’s disrespect for the Jewish...

... of rational thought. In its 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...

... and not necessarily those of the ARC. 1. Jacques Derrida, “Force of Law: The Mystical Foundations of Authority,” trans. Mary Quain- tance, in Deconstruction and the Possibility of Justice, ed. Drucilla Cornell, Michael Rosenfeld, and David Gray Carlson (London: Routledge, 1992), 3–68. Derrida’s essay first...

... . . . can attain an almost mystical depth,” he writes. “The 32. Benjamin, “Storyteller,” 96. 33. Benjamin, “Theses,” 264; Illuminationen: Ausgewählte Schriften, ed. Siegfried Unseld, vol. 1 (Frankfurt am Main: Suhrkamp, 1966), 261. 34. Benjamin, “Eduard Fuchs,” 263. Benjamin writes...

... against literature and mysticism against clarity.”14 Adorno had given Mann advice about modern music as the novelist was writ- ing Doctor Faustus, a work infused with the specific events of World War II. It 13. On the assertions of these Nazi leaders, see Herf, Jewish Enemy. Hannah Arendt...