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... disaster orchestrated by the citizens of Santiago themselves. Three cognitive schemes play a role for how Kleist—and his fictional characters—imagines the vulnerability of human society: the theodicy, the sublime, and the state of emergency. These three symbolic forms are part of the surprisingly small...

..., Adorno’s “fugitive ethical experience” amounts to a “negative theodicy” that recognizes Auschwitz as “the realization of the destruction of aura.”5 This would not undo what Adorno termed the consti- tutive “damage” that makes modern life “false”: Adorno does not nostalgi- cally envision...

... to a mute, deaf, dead fate. When the piece ends, everything is destroyed, the king- dom of nothingness and death is victorious; it does not end as a theodicy.” 4. The production became even more of a sensation when its lead, Klaus Maria Brandauer, broke his foot during the play’s run, forcing Stein...

... crises. Then secularized modernity tends to evoke images from the world of faith, for example, the dazzling surprise, that bad things might hap- pen to good people—an amazement aiming in the direction of theodicy. The reaction takes a biblical dimension—man quarrels with God—or it takes direct...

... to phenomena that appear to undermine all conventional strategies, such as theodicy, for gaining normative purchase over evil. 5 Rather, the focus is on the significance for reflection at the level of historical anthropology of the divergence of these two thinkers over how to diagnose radical evil: taken...

... position superior to fascism. Ultimately, these traditionally iniquitous figures, Faust and Mephisto, propose a poetic theodicy: rethinking salvation through the categories of poetry and love rather than sin and virtue. Lasker-Schüler explicitly frames poetry as political resistance by casting Faustian...

... God, why hast thou forsaken me?” Therefore, I think, this late book by Blumenberg is what his early books were, a radicalized question about theodicy that finds no answer. And it is also this unburdening from the absolute that Blumenberg’s Genesis of the Copernican World is about: humans cannot...

... ideology from knowledge. Utopian thinking, on the other hand, envisions a universal solution in a “radical secularized theodicy” framework ( PPM , 199). It is much closer to political theology and in a way its inversion, as for example in Benjamin’s messianic thinking. As Bottici points out, political myth...

... Lukács is done with it, Goethe’s Faust —much like the figure of Gretchen in the play—has been granted salvation, with everything else before and after condemned. Lukács accomplishes nothing less than an apotheosis of German literature and a theodicy of art in one single artwork. Why were such efforts...

... was not then the focus of such an antihistoricism. The perceived problem was an industrial society run by technocrats not subject to effective democratic control. The enemy was the past conceived in terms of historicism, empty time gradually filled with progress, a theodicy that justified the suffer- ing of past...

....11 Disas- ters are staged by cognitive modes, such as images of apocalypse, theodicies, risk scenarios, states of emergency, and the sublime, and these modes do more than just mirror the historical event. They construct disasters on the basis of the cultural, aesthetic, religious...

... interruption of the theodicy that assigns all blame for evil in the world to man’s freedom. 40. Gregor Kalinowski, “‘Fräulein Bürstners weiße Bluse’: Making Sense Stick in Kafka’s The Trial,” German Quarterly 83, no. 4 (2010): 452. Christopher Conti  119...

... in their embrace of ritual, mysteries, and mass celebrations, but that they also aimed to compete with religions by offer- ing holistic interpretations of the world that featured dogma, catechism, and theodicy.87 In light of its status as a religious concept transplanted into the sphere of politics...