... Strauss and the ‘Theologico-political Predicament.’” 10. Strauss, “Reason and Revelation,” 177 . 11. Batnitzky, “Leo Strauss’s Disenchantment with Secular Society” ; Merrill, “Leo Strauss’s Indictment of Christian Philosophy” ; Pelluchon, “Strauss and Christianity.” 12. Strauss...

... essay contributes to an understanding of Scholem's overall engagement with the topics of revelation, destruction, and redemption. The writings of Walter Benjamin, Martin Buber, Fritz Mauthner, and Franz Josef Molitor, among others, contribute to an understanding of Scholem's linguistic ideas presented...

...Louis P. Blond This article examines Franz Rosenzweig's concept of homelessness in relation to his philosophical system. For Rosenzweig, revelation is an event that gifts subjectivity to human beings and also breaks ties with the ancient cosmos, producing homelessness in creation. I argue...

... of California Press, 2003), which examines Rosenzweig’s and Heidegger’s attempts to place revelation in the world. For an overview of the debates, see Vincent McCarthy, “Martin Heidegger: Kierke­ gaard’s Influence Hidden and in Full View,” in Kierkegaard and Existentialism, ed. Jon Stewart (Farnham...

... used in Benjamin’s violence essay.5 Some recent commentators approach this essay as if it were a sacred text that contains an almost inaccessible revelation, which the critic must try to make manifest.6 In reality, the meanings attributed to the essay are often arbitrary and artificial...

..., frozen and mute. 21 This “pagan” recognizes the validity of his own particular death and the existence of his metaethical self; however, since he lives prior to “revelation,” he lacks the possibility of self-expression through speech and action. The hero’s recognition of this ambivalent private aspect...

... philosophy replicate—or describe more precisely—the Straussian distinction between religion and philosophy, or between a political order founded on revelation on the one hand, reason on the other. Their differ- ences hinge on the compatibility of Straussian philosophy—his ideas about natural right...

... turbulent side of the Mittelmeer, where the soft coastal landscape associated with easeful living transformed itself into the rocky desert and the place of revelation. Mann, who had taken two trips to Palestine and Egypt to con- duct research for his Joseph novels, remarked that Southern California...

... that combines a lapsarian melancholy with a messianist refusal to foreclose completely on transformative revelation. In “Travel and Dance,” written in 1925, he articulates the former pole clearly: the ascendancy of capitalist Ratio has made the “real person” ( wirkliche Person ) rare. 4 Kracauer...

...), how- ever, is borne by storm clouds lit up by the lightning flash of messianic time. Benjamin’s mystical conception of history seeks materialist revelation in the dialectical image, which shatters the hold of mythic history on consciousness by bringing dialectics “to a standstill.” The shock...

... metaphysical Hebrew people and call on YHWH to reveal himself once more “in a revelation to the people like the one at Mt. Sinai” can be called by the name “Messiah.” The goal of God and humanity is one and the same: the bringing about of an ethical world order. The advantage that this would deliver...

... had occurred. In the third Catilinarian, a recurrent word encapsulates the overlap between action and revelation: “mani- fest.” Manifestus in Latin originally meant “caught in the act,” in French “pris à la main,” and later developed the meaning “clearly visible, conspicuous.”11 The event...

... of the Other: Emmanuel Levinas between Revelation and Ethics (Ithaca, NY: Cornell University Press, 2005); and Hent de Vries, Minimal Theologies (Baltimore, MD: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2005). Stefanos Geroulanos  35 transcendental consciousness...

.... Information about the hidden trophy art became available only at the end of the 1980s and the beginning of the 1990s. There were the revelations of Viktor Baldin, a Soviet military engineer who picked up 362 drawings belong- ing to the Bremen Kunsthalle while he was stationed in the castle of Kranzow...

...” and “just in time” famil- iar from other studies of melodrama, but combined, for Williams, with the revelation of the innocent’s virtue and therefore underserved victimization.18 This mode, says Williams, elaborating on the work of Christine Gledhill and Peter Brooks, traffics in the victimized...

... 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 of the Mormons; if we were to evaluate this revelation, we would perhaps be forced...

... and Childhood.” Contemporary Psychoanalysis 2 , no. 3 : 36 – 40 . Kristol Irving . 1949 . “God and the Psychoanalysts: Can Freud and Religion Be Reconciled?” Commentary , November 1 . Kuriloff Emily . 2009 . “Revelations in Psychoanalytic History.” Review of George Makari...

...-Political Problem (Cam- bridge: Cambridge University Press, 2005). 10. Cf. John G. Gunnell, “Strauss before Straussianism: Reason, Revelation, and Nature,” Review of Politics 53 (1991): 53–74. 176 Development of Strauss’s Political Thought his general worldview and on the differences between...

... to evoke fundamental suspicion—as if its very revelation is meant to endorse ontological ranking. The thrilling contingency, however, is the unique epis- temic core of early modern Western investigative research, its universal excep- Dan Diner  27...

... Grass evoked the 2006 scandal that had erupted around revelations of Grass’s long- standing concealment of his membership as a teenager in the Waffen-SS. Even Israeli prime minister Benjamin Netanyahu could not resist condemning Grass’s “shameful” moral equivalence between Israel and Iran...