- Central European University
Department of History
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Matthias Riedl
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- Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Political Theology, Apocalypticism, Radical Reformation, Anabaptist History and Theology, Reformation History, and 30 moreReformation Studies, Thomas Müntzer, Martin Luther, Renaissance Humanism, Nicholas of Cusa, Ramon Llull, Heinrich Seuse, Johannes Tauler, Medieval Political Thought, John of Rupescissa, Spiritual Franciscans, Joachim of Fiore, Latin Patristics, Augustine, Eric Voegelin, Karl Löwith, Early Modern Political Thought, Andreas Bodenstein (Karlstadt), Christian Platonism, Neoplatonism, Eriugena, Comparative Political Theory, Chinese Political Thought, Ancient Indian Political Thought, Daoism, Mysticism, Christian Mysticism, Comparative Mysticism, Meister Eckhart, and Ancient Chinese Philosophyedit
DUKE University -- The Franklin Humanities Institute Politics and Religion: a Humanities Futures Cross-Departmental Seminar December 3, 2014 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm See more at:... more
DUKE University -- The Franklin Humanities Institute
Politics and Religion: a Humanities Futures Cross-Departmental Seminar
December 3, 2014 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
See more at: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/fhi-mellon-seminar-political-theory-religious-studies#sthash.L7JH1kdc.dpuf
A number of eminent philosophers, historians, and political theorists have described modern conceptions of history as secularized apocalypses. They argued that the progressivist ideologies of Enlightenment, positivism and communism had adopted from the apocalypses the linear and future-oriented conception of history and had replaced the expectation of a beyond with the promise of innerwordly fulfillment. Recently, a number of comparative studies on terrorism and sectarian violence have concluded that the one unifying element in such diverse groups as American far-right activists, the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect and radical Islamists, is their apocalyptic conception of violence: Religious terrorists see their own activity integrated in the scenario of a global war of good against evil. Employing a similar argument, other researchers have stated that the rhetoric of the Cold War and the “War on Terror” is clearly apocalyptic. Thus the question arises: Is then everything apocalyptic? The apocalypse is certainly in fashion in modern social science. However, some basic paradoxes of the above claims have been almost completely overlooked: How can modern narratives of progress draw on the apocalypses, if apocalypses traditionally offer a narrative of decline? How can activist and revolutionary movements be called apocalyptic, if apocalypses traditionally dissuade their readers from any engagement in politics? If the ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries result from a secularization of the apocalypse, why are the apocalyptic activists of the early 21st century suddenly religious again? How can it happen that a decidedly Jewish and Christian symbolic tradition becomes integrated into Islamic and even Buddhist narratives? How is it possible that, after two millennia and despite multiple religious, political, social, and cultural transformations, the symbolic lore of the apocalypses is still with us today? My paper will show that there are answers to these questions and that they are highly relevant for modern political science. However, they require two preconditions which are often missing from the way in which political science is practiced and taught at universities today: 1) a long-term historical perspective, which reaches back to the formative periods of symbolic complexes; 2) methodological flexibility, which overcomes the fragmentation of modern academic disciplines.
Politics and Religion: a Humanities Futures Cross-Departmental Seminar
December 3, 2014 - 1:00pm - 5:00pm
See more at: http://www.fhi.duke.edu/events/fhi-mellon-seminar-political-theory-religious-studies#sthash.L7JH1kdc.dpuf
A number of eminent philosophers, historians, and political theorists have described modern conceptions of history as secularized apocalypses. They argued that the progressivist ideologies of Enlightenment, positivism and communism had adopted from the apocalypses the linear and future-oriented conception of history and had replaced the expectation of a beyond with the promise of innerwordly fulfillment. Recently, a number of comparative studies on terrorism and sectarian violence have concluded that the one unifying element in such diverse groups as American far-right activists, the Japanese Aum Shinrikyo sect and radical Islamists, is their apocalyptic conception of violence: Religious terrorists see their own activity integrated in the scenario of a global war of good against evil. Employing a similar argument, other researchers have stated that the rhetoric of the Cold War and the “War on Terror” is clearly apocalyptic. Thus the question arises: Is then everything apocalyptic? The apocalypse is certainly in fashion in modern social science. However, some basic paradoxes of the above claims have been almost completely overlooked: How can modern narratives of progress draw on the apocalypses, if apocalypses traditionally offer a narrative of decline? How can activist and revolutionary movements be called apocalyptic, if apocalypses traditionally dissuade their readers from any engagement in politics? If the ideologies of the 19th and 20th centuries result from a secularization of the apocalypse, why are the apocalyptic activists of the early 21st century suddenly religious again? How can it happen that a decidedly Jewish and Christian symbolic tradition becomes integrated into Islamic and even Buddhist narratives? How is it possible that, after two millennia and despite multiple religious, political, social, and cultural transformations, the symbolic lore of the apocalypses is still with us today? My paper will show that there are answers to these questions and that they are highly relevant for modern political science. However, they require two preconditions which are often missing from the way in which political science is practiced and taught at universities today: 1) a long-term historical perspective, which reaches back to the formative periods of symbolic complexes; 2) methodological flexibility, which overcomes the fragmentation of modern academic disciplines.
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Research Interests: History of Ideas, Genealogy, Apocalypticism, Symbolism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, and 33 moreApocalyptic Eschatology, History of Biblical Interpretation, Political Theology, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Symbolism (Religion), Eric Voegelin, Messianism, Medieval Art, Eschatology, Biblical Medieval Exegesis, Medieval Political Thought, Stained Glass, Biblical Exegesis, Mircea Eliade, Medieval Art History, Progressivism, Religious Symbols, Chartres, Ernst Haeckel, Joachim of Fiore, Medieval Political Theology, Sacred Tree, Abbot Suger, Third Age, History of Reception of Biblical Texts, Capetian Kings, Suger of Saint-Denis, History of Salvation, Medieval Stained Glass, Biblical Motif of Divine Election, Tree of Jesse, Letter to the Romans, and Religious History and Symbology
Research Interests: Iconography, Art History, Patristics, History of Religion, Renaissance Studies, and 19 moreRenaissance Art, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Irenaeus, Augustine, Piety (Religion), Christian Iconography, Tragedy (Philosophy), Iconology, Predestination, Early modern religious history, Original Sin, Freedom, Hieronymus Bosch, Dutch and Flemish Art, Providence, Free will and determinism debate, Grace, Garden of Eden, and Devotio moderna
Research Interests: History of Ethics, History of Ideas, Philosophical Anthropology, Renaissance Studies, Renaissance Humanism, and 42 moreVirtue Ethics, Ramon Llull, Renaissance Philosophy, Renaissance Platonism, Count Giovanni Pico della Mirandola, Wisdom, French Renaissance, Natural Theology, Humanism, Pseudo-Dionysius, History of Moral Philosophy, Trinitarian Theology, Neoplatonism, French philosophy, Ernst Cassirer, Hermetism, Renaissance Aristotelianism, Nicholas of Cusa, Christian Neoplatonism, Dionysius the Areopagite, Cosmology, Marsilio Ficino, Deification, Promethee, Early modern religious history, Hermeticism, Human Dignity, Prometheus, History of Metaphysics, Charles de Bovelles, Humanisme, Divinization, Renaissance Neo-Platonism, Scala naturae, Ramon Sibiuda, Jacques Lefèvre d’Étaples, Trinitarian ontology, Fools In Literature, History of Cosmology, Sages, Humanismo Trinitario, and Raymond Klibansky
This essay challenges an often-invoked defense of Luther which claims that the reformer's hostility to Islam and the Turks can be explained by the "conditions of the time." In contrast, I argue that in the early 16th century, the... more
This essay challenges an often-invoked defense of Luther which claims that the reformer's hostility to Islam and the Turks can be explained by the "conditions of the time." In contrast, I argue that in the early 16th century, the perception of the Ottomans as a diabolic force was a possibility but not a necessity – especially not for somebody with higher education. By the time of Luther, Northern humanism had opened new perspectives on Islam, presenting Muslims as fellow humans, capable of rational discussion. The essay shows that Thomas Müntzer's rather friendly attitude to Muslims, Jews, and other non-Christians is owed to the Neo-Platonist background of his thought.
Research Interests: Ottoman History, Renaissance Humanism, Apocalypticism, Reformation Studies, Radical Reformation, and 15 moreReformation Theology, Peasants' War, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Anabaptist Theology, Islamic Studies, Neoplatonism, Martin Luther, Christian Neoplatonism, Sir John Mandeville, Hussite revolution (Bohemia), Interreligious Studies, Thomas Müntzer, Gog and Magog, Peasants Revolt, and Bauernkrieg 1525
Published in: Research Report. Narratives of heroism, narratives of victimhood: Identity building in Europe post heroic society, ed. Constantin Iordachi on behalf of the CLEO consortium (Vienna & Akureyri, 2023).... more
Published in: Research Report. Narratives of heroism,
narratives of victimhood: Identity building in Europe post heroic society, ed. Constantin Iordachi on behalf of the CLEO consortium (Vienna & Akureyri, 2023). https://www.cleo-erasmus.com/_files/ugd/c0ee7e_fc59d6c7785c48f59956acd2c93e9aaf.pdf , pp. 43-54.
narratives of victimhood: Identity building in Europe post heroic society, ed. Constantin Iordachi on behalf of the CLEO consortium (Vienna & Akureyri, 2023). https://www.cleo-erasmus.com/_files/ugd/c0ee7e_fc59d6c7785c48f59956acd2c93e9aaf.pdf , pp. 43-54.
Research Interests: Public History, History and Memory, Reformation Studies, Radical Reformation, Peasants' War, and 10 moreHistorical memory, National Heroes, National Identity, Narrative and Identity, East German History, Historical memory and Identity studies, Friedrich Engels, East Germany, German Peasants' War, and Thomas Müntzer
Published in: Il maestro dell’apocalisse: Eredità e posterità di Gioacchino da Fiore (XIII-XX secolo), eds. Marco Bruni and Alfredo Gatto (Milan: Mimesis, 2021). English version here:... more
Published in: Il maestro dell’apocalisse: Eredità e posterità di Gioacchino da Fiore (XIII-XX secolo), eds. Marco Bruni and Alfredo Gatto (Milan: Mimesis, 2021).
English version here: https://www.academia.edu/35039269/Longing_for_the_Third_Age_Revolutionary_Joachism_Communism_and_National_Socialism
English version here: https://www.academia.edu/35039269/Longing_for_the_Third_Age_Revolutionary_Joachism_Communism_and_National_Socialism
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Apocalypticism, Totalitarianism, Communism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, and 15 moreFranciscan Studies, Eric Voegelin, Political Ideology, National Socialism, Spiritual Franciscans, Revolutionary Theory, The Third Reich, Friedrich Engels, History of Political Ideas, Joachim of Fiore, Hussite revolution (Bohemia), Totalitarismo, Thomas Müntzer, Gioacchino Da Fiore, and John of Rupescissa
Apocalyptic knowledge is not necessarily esoteric knowledge. In the course of its history, it has oscillated between the esoteric and the exoteric, between knowledge communicated to inner circles, and knowledge communicated to the public.... more
Apocalyptic knowledge is not necessarily esoteric knowledge. In the course of its history, it has oscillated between the esoteric and the exoteric, between knowledge communicated to inner circles, and knowledge communicated to the public. Esoteric and alchemist traditions have always put more trust in human capacities than has Christian theology with its doctrines of sin and corruption. This trust may have been an important catalyst for the shift from a divinely operated transformation of reality, as we find promised in the apocalypses, to the promise of a human operated transformation of reality, as we find it in the manifestos of the European revolutions. Alchemy ascribes to man the divine power of changing the nature of things. Revolutionary thought, in turn, ascribes to man the divine power of changing the course of universal history. The essay shows that these two forms of human self-divinization are much more interrelated than the history books tell us.
Research Interests: Romanticism, Apocalypticism, Revolutions, French Revolution, Renaissance Platonism, and 15 moreAlchemy, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Apocalypticism In Literature, Apocalyptic Eschatology, French Revolution and Napoleon, George Sand, Friedrich Engels, Western Esotericism, Prophecy, Frederic Chopin, Quintessence, Joachim of Fiore, History of alchemy, Thomas Müntzer, and John of Rupescissa
This article takes its point of departure from Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979). The purpose, however, is not a detailed historical critique of... more
This article takes its point of departure from Marshall McLuhan's The Gutenberg Galaxy (1962) and Elizabeth L. Eisenstein's The Printing Press as an Agent of Change (1979). The purpose, however, is not a detailed historical critique of both books, but to take issue with fundamental claim underlying both publications: the claim that media technology is the creative agent behind early modern social, political, religious, and intellectual revolutions. The article refers to Eric Voegelin, Hannah Arendt, Ernst Cassirer, and Wilhelm von Humboldt to lay the theoretical groundwork for an alternative claim: creative agency happens in the form of linguistic evocation. The final section of the article provides a brief case study on revolutionary agency, primarily at the example of the radical reformer Thomas Müntzer. It highlights the role of language in the revolutionary transformation of the early reformation period.
Research Interests: Media Studies, Early Modern History, Creativity, Reformation Studies, Radical Reformation, and 13 moreAlchemy, Eric Voegelin, Marshall McLuhan, Ernst Cassirer, Walt Whitman, Hannah Arendt, Revolutionary Theory, Wilhelm von Humboldt, Rainer Maria Rilke, History of the printing press, Gutenberg, Thomas Müntzer, and Agrippa of Nettesheim
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Abstract: This article discusses the category of 'apocalyptic violence', which has been frequently applied in recent studies of terrorism. It shows that the category is not self-explanatory because apocalyptic literature is traditionally... more
Abstract: This article discusses the category of 'apocalyptic violence', which has been frequently applied in recent studies of terrorism. It shows that the category is not self-explanatory because apocalyptic literature is traditionally determinist and rather dissuades their readers from taking action. A historical overview demonstrates that revolutionary forms of apocalypticism emerge only in early modernity, when mystical and humanist influences undermined the determinist creed. A more differentiated concept of 'apocalyptic violence' is then tested using the example of several cases of modern terrorism. The result is that the category is meaningful for understanding certain trends within modern terrorism, especially as it captures the symbolic self-interpretation of terrorist groups more adequately than the categories extremism and fundamentalism. However, the article also shows that the category has clear limits and is not suitable for a comprehensive understanding of the motivational and ideological grounds behind terroristic violence.
Research Interests: Terrorism, Apocalypticism, Political Extremism/Radicalism/Populism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Religious Extremism, and 10 moreRevolutionary Theory, Millenarianism, Religious Fundamentalism, Anders Breivik, Christian Millenarism, Jihadism and Radical Islamism, Aum Shinrikyo, Armageddon, Religious and Political Violence, and The Turner Diaries
Abstract: The chapter describes the late medieval and early modern transformation of Joachite ideas into a revolutionary program and traces the legacy of this program in 19th and 20th century ideologies.
Research Interests: Revolutions, Conservative Revolution, Communism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, History of Political Thought, and 17 moreEric Voegelin, National Socialism, Spiritual Franciscans, Karl Löwith, Revolutionary Theory, The Third Reich, Oswald Spengler, Friedrich Engels, Progressivism, Joachim of Fiore, Hussite revolution (Bohemia), Theories of Socialism, Thomas Müntzer, The Ideology of National Socialism and the Circulation of National Socialist Ideas In Europe, Karl Kautsky, John of Rupescissa, and Arthur Moeller van den Bruck
Sonderdruck aus: RELIGION UND POLITIK. Herausgegeben vom Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster. Band 13: Zukunftsvisionen zwischen Apokalypse und Utopie. Herausgegeben von Katharina Martin... more
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RELIGION UND POLITIK. Herausgegeben vom Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Band 13: Zukunftsvisionen zwischen Apokalypse und Utopie. Herausgegeben von Katharina Martin Christian Sieg
Würzburg: ERGON VERLAG, 2016. S. 127-147
RELIGION UND POLITIK. Herausgegeben vom Exzellenzcluster „Religion und Politik“ der Westfälischen Wilhelms-Universität Münster.
Band 13: Zukunftsvisionen zwischen Apokalypse und Utopie. Herausgegeben von Katharina Martin Christian Sieg
Würzburg: ERGON VERLAG, 2016. S. 127-147
Research Interests: Future Studies, Crusades, Apocalypticism, Medieval Theology, Utopian Studies, and 22 moreSymbolism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Franciscan Studies, Apocalyptic Eschatology, Transhumanism, Cistercians, Eric Voegelin, Trinitarian Theology, Monasticism, Messianism, Symbolism (Art History), Eschatology, Utopianism, Karl Löwith, Biblical Medieval Exegesis, Medieval Political Thought, Millenarianism, Oswald Spengler, Progressivism, Joachim of Fiore, Medieval Political Theology, and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
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Research Interests: Early Modern History, Renaissance Humanism, Christian Mysticism, Apocalypticism, Revolutions, and 20 moreReformation History, Reformation Studies, Radical Reformation, Peasants' War, Early Modern Europe, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, History of Political Thought, Saxony (Germany), Political Theology, Early Modern Intellectual History, Book of Daniel, Eschatology, Religion and Violence, Martin Luther, Revolutionary Theory, Joachim of Fiore, Johannes Tauler, Thomas Müntzer, Religious and Political Violence, and Fanaticism
Research Interests: History of Religion, History of Christianity, Medieval Studies, Apocalypticism, Theological Interpretation of Christian Scripture, and 20 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, History of Political Thought, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Eschatology, Medieval Political Thought, Divine Providence, Book of Isaiah, Mircea Eliade, Christian Theology, Predestination, Progressivism, Joachim of Fiore, Grace, Christian Eschatology, Tree of Jesse, Gioacchino Da Fiore, Letter to the Romans, Chartres Cathedral, Olive Tree Symbolism, and Symbolism of the Tree
Research Interests: Christian Mysticism, Revolutions, Utopian Studies, Reformation Studies, Radical Reformation, and 23 morePolitical Religion, Mysticism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Apocalyptic Eschatology, Secularization, Political Theology, Eric Voegelin, Eschatology, Martin Luther, Revolutionary Theory, Early modern religious history, Utraquism, Antichrist, Prophecy, Anticlericalism, Joachim of Fiore, Prophecy and Apocalypticism, Johannes Tauler, Thomas Müntzer, Medieval Prague, Theories of Secularization, Religious and Political Violence, and Hussites
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The suppression of the Bacchanalia in Rome 186 BCE was the first major religious persecution in Europe. The essay provides a new analysis, referring to the political theory of Eric Voegelin. It shows that the suppression was a reaction of... more
The suppression of the Bacchanalia in Rome 186 BCE was the first major religious persecution in Europe. The essay provides a new analysis, referring to the political theory of Eric Voegelin. It shows that the suppression was a reaction of the Roman commonwealth to a cult which challgenged the meaning of political existence within the republic. Ultimately, the Bacchanalian affair is a collision of two types of religiosity, the political religiosity of the public cult and the orgiastic and apolitical religiosity of the Bacchic underground. Both types are based on particular religious experiences, the experience of gods preserving and fostering the political community and the experience of a god promoting the fulfilment of bodily desires. As the essay shows at the example of Euripides’ Bacchae, the worship of Bacchus-Dionysus had always represented the apolitical dimension of human existence; already in the ancient myths the “alien god” appears as the enemy of rulers and politicians. Finally, this reconsideration of the Bacchanalia helps to understand why the early Christians were likened to the Bacchants.
Research Interests: Classics, History of Religion, Religion and Politics, Religion and Sexuality, Early Christianity, and 16 moreRoman Religion, Roman Republic, Mysteries (Greek Religion), Ancient Greek Religion, Mystery cult, Eric Voegelin, Euripides, Religion and Violence, Ecstatic Religious Experience, Dionysus, Livy, Euripides, Bacchae, Minucius Felix, Bacchus, Bacchanalia, and Concept of the Political
The essay introduces the concept of “proleptic existence” which denotes a psychological disposition determined by the anticipation (prolepsis) of the future. The first historical evidence for this type is found in the apocalyptic... more
The essay introduces the concept of “proleptic existence” which denotes a psychological disposition determined by the anticipation (prolepsis) of the future. The first historical evidence for this type is found in the apocalyptic literature of the Greco-Roman period. As these texts clearly show, the proleptic expectation of a future transformation of the world results from a complete alienation from political reality. Consequently, proleptic existence becomes articulate in visionary accounts of a coming order, which predicts the reconciliation of individual consciousness and social order. The essay presents examples from ancient apocalypticism, early Christianity, medieval monasticism, and modern art in order to show how proleptic existence becomes a formative feature of Western society.
Research Interests: Future Studies, History of Ideas, Philosophical Anthropology, History of Religion, Abstract Art, and 14 moreUtopian Studies, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Second Temple Judaism, Ecclesiology, History of Political Thought, Apocalypse Theory, Apocrypha/Pseudepigrapha, Alienation, Wassily Kandinsky, Anticipation, Joachim of Fiore, 4 Ezra, Prolepsis, and Proleptic Existence
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At the end of the 12th century, the famous Calabrian abbot and apocalyptic seer Joachim of Fiore drafted a constitution for the universal Christian society he expected to emerge in a coming third age of the Spirit. This articles shows... more
At the end of the 12th century, the famous Calabrian abbot and apocalyptic seer Joachim of Fiore drafted a constitution for the universal Christian society he expected to emerge in a coming third age of the Spirit. This articles shows that the constitution combines a highly complex symbolic structure with very concrete and pragmatic instructions for future social life. While the symbolic structure amounts to the image of a collective messiah, the pragmatic structure evokes the picture of a strictly hierarchical society, where the rank of a person depends on the possession of spiritual knowledge.
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Medieval Studies, Apocalypticism, Utopian Studies, Medieval Church History, and 12 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, Apocalyptic Eschatology, History of Political Thought, Church Reform, Cistercians, Monasticism, Messianism, Eschatology, Medieval Political Thought, Benedictine Monasticism, Joachim of Fiore, and Collective Messiah
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Apocalypticism, Medieval Theology, Utopian Studies, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, and 12 moreHistory of Political Thought, Cistercians, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Monasticism, Messianism, Eschatology, Medieval Political Thought, Benedictine Spirituality, Benedictine Monasticism, Prophecy, Medieval Prophecy, and Joachim of Fiore
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Gianni Vattimo was among the first postmodern philosophers who (re-)turned to religion. His turn results from a religious experience, namely the sudden and surprising insight that his postmodern ontology of the weakening of Being... more
Gianni Vattimo was among the first postmodern philosophers who (re-)turned to religion. His turn results from a religious experience, namely the sudden and surprising insight that his postmodern ontology of the weakening of Being coincides with the Christian idea of the incarnation of God, the kenosis. According to Vattimo, the process of divine self-revelation has not brought about the universality of Christian faith but precisely the opposite, a plurality of mutually interacting regional truths. Consequently, the daily encounters with otherness will gradually destroy the dominant religious truths and bring about the hermeneutic age, where no experience is given, which is not an interpretive act. The essay provides a critical analysis of Vattimo’s recent writings.
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Research Interests: Gnosticism, History of Ideas, History of Religion, Revolutions, Cold War, and 15 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, Modernity, Apocalyptic Eschatology, Secularization, History of Political Thought, Political Theology, Eric Voegelin, Religion and Modernity, Hans Jonas, Revolutionary Theory, Gnosis, Joachim of Fiore, Radical Political Theology, Christian Eschatology, and Transcendence/immanence
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Some remarks on Dante's "Monarchia", the so-called political Averroism, and universalism in political tought
Research Interests: Medieval History, Dante Studies, Medieval Studies, Secularization, Ecclesiology, and 28 moreHistory of Political Thought, Medieval Intellectual History, Kingship (Medieval History), Politics of Secularism, Dante, Secularisms and Secularities, Aristotelianism, Neoplatonism, Dante Alighieri, Averroism, Empire, Medieval Political Thought, Monarchy, Christian Neoplatonism, Dionysius the Areopagite, Averroes, Latin Averroism, Giles of Rome, Ibn Rushd (Averroës), Medieval Aristotelianism, Political Thought, Boniface VIII, Universalism, Mankind, Hierarchy, Angelic Hierarchies, Philipp the Fair, and Universalist Theology
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Das Evangelium des Johannes berichtet, wie Jesus von Nazareth nach seiner Gefangennahme und dem Verhör durch die jüdische Hohepriesterschaft dem römischen Prätorium überstellt wird. Das Verhör durch den Statthalter Pontius Pilatus wird... more
Das Evangelium des Johannes berichtet, wie Jesus von Nazareth nach seiner Gefangennahme und dem Verhör durch die jüdische Hohepriesterschaft dem römischen Prätorium überstellt wird. Das Verhör durch den Statthalter Pontius Pilatus wird folgendermaßen wiedergegeben: „Pilatus (...) fragte ihn: Bist du der König der Juden? Jesus antwortete: Sagst du das von dir aus, oder haben es dir andere über mich gesagt? Pilatus entgegnete: Bin ich denn ein Jude? Dein eigenes Volk und die Hohenpriester haben dich an mich ausgeliefert. Was hast du getan? Jesus antwortete: Mein Königtum ist nicht von dieser Welt. Wenn es von dieser Welt wäre, würden meine Leute für mich kämpfen, damit ich den Juden nicht ausgeliefert würde. Aber mein Königtum ist nicht von hier. Pilatus sagte zu ihm: Also bist du doch ein König? Jesus antwortete: Du sagst es, ich bin ein König. Ich bin dazu geboren und dazu in die Welt gekommen, dass ich für die Wahrheit Zeugnis ablege. Jeder, der aus der Wahrheit ist, hört auf meine Stimme. Pilatus sagte zu ihm: Was ist Wahrheit (ti estin aletheia<?“ (Joh. 18, 33-38).
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Description The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, followed by similarly dreadful acts of terror, prompted a new interest in the field of the apocalyptic. There is a steady output of literature on the subject (also referred to as "... more
Description The attack on the World Trade Center in 2001, followed by similarly dreadful acts of terror, prompted a new interest in the field of the apocalyptic. There is a steady output of literature on the subject (also referred to as " the End Times.) This book analyzes this continuously published literature and opens up a new perspective on these views of the apocalypse. The thirteen essays in this volume focus on the dimensions, consequences and transformations of Apocalypticism. The authors explore the everyday relevance of the apocalyptic in contemporary society, culture, and politics, side by side with the various histories of apocalyptic ideas and movements. In particular, they seek to better understand the ways in which perceptions of the apocalypse diverge in the American, European, and Arab worlds. Leading experts in the field re-evaluate some of the traditional views on the apocalypse in light of recent political and cultural events, and, go beyond empirical facts to reconsider the potential of the apocalyptic. This last point is the focal point of the book. More information: http://ceupress.com/book/apocalyptic-complex
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Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and... more
Joachim of Fiore (c.1135-1202) remains one of the most fascinating and enigmatic figures of medieval Christianity. In his own time, he was an influential advisor to the mighty and powerful, widely respected for his prophetic exegesis and decoding of the apocalypse. In modern times, many thinkers, from Thomas Müntzer to Friedrich Engels, have hailed him as a prophet of progress and revolution. Even present-day theologians, philosophers and novelists were inspired by Joachim’s vision of a Third Age of the Holy Spirit.
However, at no time was Joachim an uncontroversial figure. Soon after his death, the church authorities became suspicious about the explosive potential of his theology, while more recently historians held him accountable for the fateful progressivism of Western Civilization.
Contributors are: Frances Andrews, Valeria De Fraja, Alfredo Gatto, Peter Gemeinhardt, Sven Grosse, Massimo Iiritano, Bernard McGinn, Matthias Riedl, and Brett Edward Whalen
However, at no time was Joachim an uncontroversial figure. Soon after his death, the church authorities became suspicious about the explosive potential of his theology, while more recently historians held him accountable for the fateful progressivism of Western Civilization.
Contributors are: Frances Andrews, Valeria De Fraja, Alfredo Gatto, Peter Gemeinhardt, Sven Grosse, Massimo Iiritano, Bernard McGinn, Matthias Riedl, and Brett Edward Whalen
Research Interests: Medieval History, Apocalypticism, Medieval Theology, Medieval Church History, Papacy (Medieval Church History), and 11 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, Medieval theology (Medieval Studies), Franciscan Studies, Apocalyptic Eschatology, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Trinitarian Theology, Monasticism, Biblical Medieval Exegesis, Medieval Political Thought, Prophecy, and Joachim of Fiore
Seit langen wird dem kalabresischen Abt Joachim von Fiore († 1202) eine geradezu ungeheure Wirkung auf die abendländische Geistesgeschichte zugeschrieben. Karl Löwith, Jakob Taubes, Eric Voegelin und andere sahen in ihm den „Vordenker“... more
Seit langen wird dem kalabresischen Abt Joachim von Fiore († 1202) eine geradezu ungeheure Wirkung auf die abendländische Geistesgeschichte zugeschrieben. Karl Löwith, Jakob Taubes, Eric Voegelin und andere sahen in ihm den „Vordenker“ der neuzeitlichen Ideologien, ja selbst der Totalitarismen des 20. Jahrhunderts. Doch die ideengeschichtliche Forschung kümmerte sich wenig darum, was tatsächlich in den Schriften Joachims steht. Das wird mit dieser Studie nachgeholt. Sie zieht die populären Joachim-Bilder in Zweifel. Nicht als antiklerikaler Revolutionär, zurückgezogener Mystiker oder dunkler Prophet des Dritten Reiches zeigt sich der Abt, sondern als innovativer Gesellschaftstheoretiker. Er beteiligte sich aktiv an den politischen Auseinandersetzungen seiner Zeit und stand den Mächtigen als Ratgeber zur Seite. Sein Verfassungsentwurf für das „Dritte Zeitalter des Heiligen Geistes“, der von Matthias Riedl in kommentierter Übersetzung vorgelegt wird, ist nicht weniger faszinierend als die Utopien eines Morus, Campanella oder Fourier. Joachim von Fiore, so belegt dieses Buch, formuliert zum ersten Mal die Idee des Fortschritts, im Sinne einer geschichtlich-sozialen Höherentwicklung und Vollendung der Menschheit.
Research Interests: History of Ideas, Medieval History, History of Religion, Medieval Studies, Apocalypticism, and 23 moreMedieval Theology, Utopian Studies, Medieval Church History, Papacy (Medieval Church History), Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Ecclesiology, History of Political Thought, Political Theology, History of Religion (Medieval Studies), Trinitarian Theology, Monasticism, Religious Experience, Medieval Political Thought, Biblical Exegesis, Frederick I Barbarossa, Progressivism, Prophecy, Richard Lionheart, Joachim of Fiore, Fourth Lateran Council, Henry VI, Prophecy and Apocalypticism, and Calabria medievale
"Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert, Hrsg. DIE STADT: ACHSE UND ZENTRUM DER WELT THE CITY: AXIS AND CENTRE OF THE WORLD Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 16 Aus dem Inhalt: Matthias Riedl: Introduction: The City as Symbol... more
"Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert, Hrsg.
DIE STADT: ACHSE UND ZENTRUM DER WELT
THE CITY: AXIS AND CENTRE OF THE WORLD
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 16
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Introduction: The City as Symbol
Alessandro Scafi: Filarete’s Ideal City of Sforzinda: Architecture between Nature and Society
Christoph Schumann: Die nahöstliche Stadt im Schnittpunkt zwischen Erinnerung und Erwartung
Steven F. McGuire: Philosophy, the Mysteries, and Politics in Plato’s Phaedrus
Dieter Fuchs : Socratic Archetypes of Metropolitan Discourse in James Joyce's Ulysses
Chloé Ragazzoli: A Tale of Two Cities: sémiotique de la ville en Égypte. À travers ses représentations
Håkan Forsell: Metropolitan Pedagogy in Fín de Siècle Central Europe -- Johannes Tews, Fritz Gansberg and the Discovery of the ‘Democratic Child’
Tilo Schabert: On the Recent History of the Eranos-Tagungen
"
DIE STADT: ACHSE UND ZENTRUM DER WELT
THE CITY: AXIS AND CENTRE OF THE WORLD
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 16
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Introduction: The City as Symbol
Alessandro Scafi: Filarete’s Ideal City of Sforzinda: Architecture between Nature and Society
Christoph Schumann: Die nahöstliche Stadt im Schnittpunkt zwischen Erinnerung und Erwartung
Steven F. McGuire: Philosophy, the Mysteries, and Politics in Plato’s Phaedrus
Dieter Fuchs : Socratic Archetypes of Metropolitan Discourse in James Joyce's Ulysses
Chloé Ragazzoli: A Tale of Two Cities: sémiotique de la ville en Égypte. À travers ses représentations
Håkan Forsell: Metropolitan Pedagogy in Fín de Siècle Central Europe -- Johannes Tews, Fritz Gansberg and the Discovery of the ‘Democratic Child’
Tilo Schabert: On the Recent History of the Eranos-Tagungen
"
Research Interests:
"Tilo Schabert, Matthias Riedl (Hrsg.) Gott oder Götter? - God or Gods 224 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2009 ISBN 3-8260-3539-9 Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 15 Aus dem Inhalt: Tilo... more
"Tilo Schabert, Matthias Riedl (Hrsg.)
Gott oder Götter? - God or Gods
224 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2009
ISBN 3-8260-3539-9
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 15
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Einführung
Polymnia Athanassiadi: The Gods are God. Polytheistic Cult and Monotheistic Theology
in the World of Late Antiquity
Burkhard Gladigow: Wieviel Götter braucht der Mensch? Erwartungen an Götter in der Religionsgeschichte
Antonio Panaino: Ahura Mazdā tra Baga e Yazata. La religione mazdaica come forma particolare di monoteismo
Aaron J. Powell: God or Gods? Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and the Buddha-Nature in Chinese Buddhism
Christoph Egger: Demogorgon. Christlicher Gott und heidnische Götter im Mittelalter
Gabriele De Angelis : Religion and the Integration of Society. Religious Systems, Monotheism and Polytheism in Sociological Perspective
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Der Christengott im Plural. Zum Gestaltwandel des Christentums in der Gegenwart
Stéphane Toussaint: Survivances du polythéisme. Avec une lettre d’Henry Corbin inédite en français
Tilo Schabert: In the fading of divine voices: The song of Eranos
"
Gott oder Götter? - God or Gods
224 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2009
ISBN 3-8260-3539-9
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 15
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Einführung
Polymnia Athanassiadi: The Gods are God. Polytheistic Cult and Monotheistic Theology
in the World of Late Antiquity
Burkhard Gladigow: Wieviel Götter braucht der Mensch? Erwartungen an Götter in der Religionsgeschichte
Antonio Panaino: Ahura Mazdā tra Baga e Yazata. La religione mazdaica come forma particolare di monoteismo
Aaron J. Powell: God or Gods? Buddhas, Bodhisattvas and the Buddha-Nature in Chinese Buddhism
Christoph Egger: Demogorgon. Christlicher Gott und heidnische Götter im Mittelalter
Gabriele De Angelis : Religion and the Integration of Society. Religious Systems, Monotheism and Polytheism in Sociological Perspective
Friedrich Wilhelm Graf: Der Christengott im Plural. Zum Gestaltwandel des Christentums in der Gegenwart
Stéphane Toussaint: Survivances du polythéisme. Avec une lettre d’Henry Corbin inédite en français
Tilo Schabert: In the fading of divine voices: The song of Eranos
"
Research Interests:
""Matthias Riedl,/Tilo Schabert (Hrsg.) Religionen - die religiöse Erfahrung Religions - the religious experience 225 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008 ISBN 978-3-8260-3538-8 Reihe: ERANOS –... more
""Matthias Riedl,/Tilo Schabert (Hrsg.)
Religionen - die religiöse Erfahrung
Religions - the religious experience
225 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008
ISBN 978-3-8260-3538-8
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 14
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Einleitung: Religiöse Erfahrung als wissenschaftliches Problem
Walter Haug: Gotteserfahrung im abendländischen Mittelalter
Moshe Idel: On the Language of Ecstatic Experiences in Jewish Mysticism
Enzo Pace: Lo spirito et l`ordine. L`esperienza religiosa nell`Islam
Davíd Carrasco: The Virgin of Guadalupe and two types of religious experiences: The personal illumination and the ceremonial landscape
Michel-Yves Perrin: Arcana mysteria ou ce que cache la religion. De certaines pratiques de l’arcane dans le christianisme antique
Julia Eva Wannenmacher: Das Tor zur Ewigkeit: Grenzerfahrung und Vision in der Mittelalterlichen Apokalyptik
Gerson Moreno-Riaño: Religious Experience and Political Morality: The Thomistic natural law tradition
Francesco Gaiffi: L`"ultimo dio": Letture filosofiche dell`esperienza religiosa contemporanea
Religionen - die religiöse Erfahrung
Religions - the religious experience
225 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2008
ISBN 978-3-8260-3538-8
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 14
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Einleitung: Religiöse Erfahrung als wissenschaftliches Problem
Walter Haug: Gotteserfahrung im abendländischen Mittelalter
Moshe Idel: On the Language of Ecstatic Experiences in Jewish Mysticism
Enzo Pace: Lo spirito et l`ordine. L`esperienza religiosa nell`Islam
Davíd Carrasco: The Virgin of Guadalupe and two types of religious experiences: The personal illumination and the ceremonial landscape
Michel-Yves Perrin: Arcana mysteria ou ce que cache la religion. De certaines pratiques de l’arcane dans le christianisme antique
Julia Eva Wannenmacher: Das Tor zur Ewigkeit: Grenzerfahrung und Vision in der Mittelalterlichen Apokalyptik
Gerson Moreno-Riaño: Religious Experience and Political Morality: The Thomistic natural law tradition
Francesco Gaiffi: L`"ultimo dio": Letture filosofiche dell`esperienza religiosa contemporanea
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Philosophy, Spirituality, Jewish Mysticism, Phenomenology, and 15 moreEarly Christianity, Mysticism, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Martin Heidegger, Apocalypticism In Literature, Thomas Aquinas, Spirituality & Mysticism, Mexico (Anthropology), Religious Experience, Kabbalah, Islamic Mysticism, Ecstatic Religious Experience, Virgin of Guadalupe, Existentialism, and Eranos
"Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl, Hrsg. Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur – Humans at War, at Peace with Nature 227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006 ISBN 3-8260-3392-6 Reihe: ERANOS... more
"Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl, Hrsg.
Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur – Humans at War, at Peace with Nature
227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006
ISBN 3-8260-3392-6
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 13
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Introduction: A Wisdom To Be Recovered – The Relations of the Parts to the Whole
Joseph Hanimann: La cime abandonné – Die abgestoßene Krone. Zur Frage des Tragischen in der Natur
Stéphane Toussaint: La destruction du cosmos. Esquisse d`une analyse
Elisabetta Barone: Tra empatia e dominio: Sentieri di pace o asce di guerra?
Hans-Jörg Sigwart: In Corpore Salus? Entfremdung und Leiblichkeit in der Bewegung der “Lebensreform” um 1900
Massimo Iiritano: “Nuovi cieli e nuova terra”: Per une teologia messianica della natura.
Matthias Riedl: Natur und Sünde. Augustinus über den Anfang der Politik.
Flavia Monceri: Bushidō. L`arte di far guerra in pace con la natura.
Arpád Szakolczai: World-Rejections and World-Conquests: The Spiralling Dynamics of War and Peace.
"
Die Menschen im Krieg, im Frieden mit der Natur – Humans at War, at Peace with Nature
227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2006
ISBN 3-8260-3392-6
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 13
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Introduction: A Wisdom To Be Recovered – The Relations of the Parts to the Whole
Joseph Hanimann: La cime abandonné – Die abgestoßene Krone. Zur Frage des Tragischen in der Natur
Stéphane Toussaint: La destruction du cosmos. Esquisse d`une analyse
Elisabetta Barone: Tra empatia e dominio: Sentieri di pace o asce di guerra?
Hans-Jörg Sigwart: In Corpore Salus? Entfremdung und Leiblichkeit in der Bewegung der “Lebensreform” um 1900
Massimo Iiritano: “Nuovi cieli e nuova terra”: Per une teologia messianica della natura.
Matthias Riedl: Natur und Sünde. Augustinus über den Anfang der Politik.
Flavia Monceri: Bushidō. L`arte di far guerra in pace con la natura.
Arpád Szakolczai: World-Rejections and World-Conquests: The Spiralling Dynamics of War and Peace.
"
Research Interests:
"Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert, Hrsg. Propheten und Prophezeiungen – Prophets and Prophecies 227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005 ISBN 3-8260-2253-X Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 12... more
"Matthias Riedl/Tilo Schabert, Hrsg.
Propheten und Prophezeiungen – Prophets and Prophecies
227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005
ISBN 3-8260-2253-X
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 12
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Einleitung: Prophetie als interzivilisatorisches Phänomen
Adriano Fabris: Il Tempo della Profezia. I Modelli Greco, Ebraico e Cristiano
Tilo Schabert: Prophecy in Politics: The Voice of Plato
Josef van Ess: Das Siegel des Propheten. Die Endzeit und das Prophetische im Islam
Kurt-Victor Selge: Die Verzeitlichung der Gottesstadt bei Joachim Von Fiore
Christine Trevett: Early Christian Prophets: Wanderings, Women, and the Course of Change
Bernard McGinn: „Trumpets of the Mysteries of God“. Prophetesses in Late Medieval Christianity
John von Heyking: Political Prophecy in Nicholas of Cusa
Philippe Bénéton: Suite Pascalienne: Les prophéties
Rita Laura Segato: Oracle, Destiny and Personality in Afro-Brazilian Cosmologies
Flavia Monceri: The Time of the Instant: Prophecy in Japan
"
Propheten und Prophezeiungen – Prophets and Prophecies
227 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2005
ISBN 3-8260-2253-X
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 12
Aus dem Inhalt:
Matthias Riedl: Einleitung: Prophetie als interzivilisatorisches Phänomen
Adriano Fabris: Il Tempo della Profezia. I Modelli Greco, Ebraico e Cristiano
Tilo Schabert: Prophecy in Politics: The Voice of Plato
Josef van Ess: Das Siegel des Propheten. Die Endzeit und das Prophetische im Islam
Kurt-Victor Selge: Die Verzeitlichung der Gottesstadt bei Joachim Von Fiore
Christine Trevett: Early Christian Prophets: Wanderings, Women, and the Course of Change
Bernard McGinn: „Trumpets of the Mysteries of God“. Prophetesses in Late Medieval Christianity
John von Heyking: Political Prophecy in Nicholas of Cusa
Philippe Bénéton: Suite Pascalienne: Les prophéties
Rita Laura Segato: Oracle, Destiny and Personality in Afro-Brazilian Cosmologies
Flavia Monceri: The Time of the Instant: Prophecy in Japan
"
Research Interests:
"Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl, Hrsg. Das Ordnen der Zeit 240 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2003 ISBN 3-8260-2251-3 Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 10 Aus dem Inhalt: Tilo Schabert:... more
"Tilo Schabert/Matthias Riedl, Hrsg.
Das Ordnen der Zeit
240 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2003
ISBN 3-8260-2251-3
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 10
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Einführung: Wahrnehmungen unter dem Namen „Zeit“
Walter Haug: Der Durchbruch durch die Ordnung der Zeit in der abendländischen Mystik
Moshe Idel: Sabbat: Zeitkonzepte in der jüdischen Mystik
Anthony F. Aveni: Präkolumbianische Zeitvorstellungen
Friedrich Niewöhner: Die Ordnung der Zeit verbürgt die Endlichkeit der Macht
Gerhard Böwering: Ewigkeit und Augenblick – Dimensionen der Zeit im Islam
Joël Thomas: Griechisch-römische Vorstellungen von Raum und Zeit
Giuseppe Zarone: Realität und Rätsel der Zeit
Aleida Assmann: Obsession der Zeit in der englischen Moderne
Das Ordnen der Zeit
240 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2003
ISBN 3-8260-2251-3
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 10
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Einführung: Wahrnehmungen unter dem Namen „Zeit“
Walter Haug: Der Durchbruch durch die Ordnung der Zeit in der abendländischen Mystik
Moshe Idel: Sabbat: Zeitkonzepte in der jüdischen Mystik
Anthony F. Aveni: Präkolumbianische Zeitvorstellungen
Friedrich Niewöhner: Die Ordnung der Zeit verbürgt die Endlichkeit der Macht
Gerhard Böwering: Ewigkeit und Augenblick – Dimensionen der Zeit im Islam
Joël Thomas: Griechisch-römische Vorstellungen von Raum und Zeit
Giuseppe Zarone: Realität und Rätsel der Zeit
Aleida Assmann: Obsession der Zeit in der englischen Moderne
Research Interests:
"""Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel, Hrsg. Pioniere, Poeten, Professoren Eranos und der Monte Verità in der Zivilisationsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts 260 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung Würzburg: Königshausen &... more
"""Elisabetta Barone/Matthias Riedl/Alexandra Tischel, Hrsg.
Pioniere, Poeten, Professoren
Eranos und der Monte Verità in der Zivilisationsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
260 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004
ISBN 3-8260-2252-1
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 11
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Introduction: The Eranos Experience
Elisabeth Ries: Monte Verità, Ascona: Oberfläche und Unterströmungen am Berg der Wahrheit
Alexandra Tischel: Unter Propheten – Franziska zu Reventlows Romane im Spannungsfeld der Jahrhundertwende
Claudio Belloni: Thomas Mann e le origini di Eranos
Adriano Fabris: La filosofia di Eranos
Elisabetta Barone: L’avventura di Eranos: tra memoria e profezia
Thomas S. Bremer: The Genius loci ignotus of Eranos and the Making of Sacred Place
John von Heyking: From a Wooded Summit: Learning to Love Through Augustinian Meditation at Ascona
Ron Margolin: Three Approaches to the Study of Religion at Eranos. Martin Buber, C.G. Jung and Mircea Eliade
Serena Di Matteo/Aaron Powell: Far Eastern Thought at Eranos: It’s History and Impact
Matthias Riedl: Adolf Portmann – Ein Skeptiker auf der Suche
Adele Bottiglieri: Eranos tra i tempi e i luoghi della storia. La metafora dell’ esilio
Francesco Saverio Festa: Teosofia ed esotersimo nelle riviste italiane della prima metà del ‘900
Georg Dörr: Archetyp und Geschichte oder München – Ascona: Typologische und menschliche Nähe (Mit einigen Briefen Olga Fröbes an L. Derleth).
Gian Paolo Cammarota: Quale messianismo? Riflessioni a partire da Gershom Scholem
Francesco Gaiffi: Mito e fede cristiana. La dimensione mitico-archetipica nei contributi dei teologi cristiani ad Eranos
Silvia Siniscalchi: Il concetto di ,opposizione‘ tra Musica e alchimia
"
Pioniere, Poeten, Professoren
Eranos und der Monte Verità in der Zivilisationsgeschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts
260 Seiten. Broschur mit Fadenheftung
Würzburg: Königshausen & Neumann 2004
ISBN 3-8260-2252-1
Reihe: ERANOS – Neue Folge, Band 11
Aus dem Inhalt:
Tilo Schabert: Introduction: The Eranos Experience
Elisabeth Ries: Monte Verità, Ascona: Oberfläche und Unterströmungen am Berg der Wahrheit
Alexandra Tischel: Unter Propheten – Franziska zu Reventlows Romane im Spannungsfeld der Jahrhundertwende
Claudio Belloni: Thomas Mann e le origini di Eranos
Adriano Fabris: La filosofia di Eranos
Elisabetta Barone: L’avventura di Eranos: tra memoria e profezia
Thomas S. Bremer: The Genius loci ignotus of Eranos and the Making of Sacred Place
John von Heyking: From a Wooded Summit: Learning to Love Through Augustinian Meditation at Ascona
Ron Margolin: Three Approaches to the Study of Religion at Eranos. Martin Buber, C.G. Jung and Mircea Eliade
Serena Di Matteo/Aaron Powell: Far Eastern Thought at Eranos: It’s History and Impact
Matthias Riedl: Adolf Portmann – Ein Skeptiker auf der Suche
Adele Bottiglieri: Eranos tra i tempi e i luoghi della storia. La metafora dell’ esilio
Francesco Saverio Festa: Teosofia ed esotersimo nelle riviste italiane della prima metà del ‘900
Georg Dörr: Archetyp und Geschichte oder München – Ascona: Typologische und menschliche Nähe (Mit einigen Briefen Olga Fröbes an L. Derleth).
Gian Paolo Cammarota: Quale messianismo? Riflessioni a partire da Gershom Scholem
Francesco Gaiffi: Mito e fede cristiana. La dimensione mitico-archetipica nei contributi dei teologi cristiani ad Eranos
Silvia Siniscalchi: Il concetto di ,opposizione‘ tra Musica e alchimia
"
Research Interests: Comparative Religion, Cultural History, Thomas Mann, Alchemy, Alternative Pedagogy, and 11 moreMartin Buber, Carl G. Jung, Western Esotericism (History), Theosophy, Gershom Scholem, Myth, Mircea Eliade, New Social Movements, Green Movement, Environmentalism, Eranos, Aesthetics - Adolf Portmann - zoology - Living forms, and Monte Verità
Order is one of the most central concepts in the history of political thought. The English word (just as the French ordre, the German Ordnung, the Italian ordine, or the Spanish orden) is derived from the Latin term ordo, which can denote... more
Order is one of the most central concepts in the history of political thought. The English word (just as the French ordre, the German Ordnung, the Italian ordine, or the Spanish orden) is derived from the Latin term ordo, which can denote any kind of structured or regulated condition, as opposed to disorder and chaos. As such, ordo may refer to a variety of more or less politically relevant matters: monastic and clerical organizations, the estates within a society, coronation rituals, the structure of the cosmos, the disposition of the human soul, and so forth. This entry considers the most important and most general meaning of political order, which denotes the meaningful dimension of human social existence. It briefly describes five approaches to political order in their particular experiential contexts. The first two – the order of cosmos and the order of history – may be termed classical, while the latter three – the order of existence, the order of consciousness, and the order of discourse – are rather modern approaches. Yet it will become clear that the classical models retain their significance even in the modern era.
Research Interests: Ontology, Political Theory, Hobbes, Discourse, Cosmopolitanism, and 21 moreEschatology and Apocalypticism, Consciousness, Augustine, Michel Foucault, Plotinus, Ecclesiology, History of Political Thought, Political Theology, Apostle Paul and the Pauline Letters, Eric Voegelin, Neoplatonism, Carl Schmitt, Eschatology, Dionysius the Areopagite, Giles of Rome, Political Thought, Existence, Joachim of Fiore, Order, Hierarchy, and Jean Bodin
After a first glance at the title, the reader would expect a book in the tradition of Eric Voegelin’s "Political Religions" or Karl Löwith’s "Meaning in History," in other words, a book researching the transformation of apocalyptic... more
After a first glance at the title, the reader would expect a book in the tradition of Eric Voegelin’s "Political Religions" or Karl Löwith’s "Meaning in History," in other words, a book researching the transformation of apocalyptic thought into modern secular ideologies. But this is not what "Apocalypse without God" is about. Instead, Ben Jones’ study looks at secular political thinkers who are uncomfortable with apocalyptic thought and, at the same time, adopt elements of it into their own conception of politics. For this purpose, the book provides three historical case studies on Niccolò Machiavelli, Thomas Hobbes, and Friedrich Engels.
Research Interests: Hobbes, Apocalypticism, Utopian Studies, Eschatology and Apocalypticism, Thomas Hobbes, and 11 moreApocalyptic Eschatology, John Rawls, Machiavelli, Utopianism, Niccolò Machiavelli, Friedrich Engels, Girolamo Savonarola, Political Realism and Idealism, Political Realism, Ideal and Non-Ideal Theory, and Thomas Müntzer
Review of "Technik und Science-Fiction in der Vormoderne" [Technology
and science fiction in the premodern age]
Edited by Brigitte Burrichter and Dorothea Klein. Würzburg:
Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. Pp. 312.
and science fiction in the premodern age]
Edited by Brigitte Burrichter and Dorothea Klein. Würzburg:
Königshausen & Neumann, 2018. Pp. 312.
Research Interests:
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The essay introduces the concept of "proleptic existence" which denotes a psychological disposition determined by the anticipation (prolepsis) of the future. The first historical evidence for this type is found in the apocalyptic... more
The essay introduces the concept of "proleptic existence" which denotes a psychological disposition determined by the anticipation (prolepsis) of the future. The first historical evidence for this type is found in the apocalyptic literature of the Greco-Roman period. As these texts clearly show, the proleptic expectation of a future transformation of the world results from a complete alienation from political reality. Consequently, proleptic existence becomes articulate in visionary accounts of a coming order, which predicts the reconciliation of individual consciousness and social order. The essay presents examples from ancient apocalypticism, early Christianity, medieval monasticism, and modern art in order to show how proleptic existence becomes a formative feature of Western society.
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Eric Voegelin formulated one of the most challenging theses about the theological foundations of modern progressivist and revolutionary thought: the character of modernity is essentially Gnostic. The aim of this essay is to show why the... more
Eric Voegelin formulated one of the most challenging theses about the theological foundations of modern progressivist and revolutionary thought: the character of modernity is essentially Gnostic. The aim of this essay is to show why the early version of Voegelin' Gnosis-thesis, as proposed in his New Science of Politics (1951), is not convincing. I argue that processes of immanentization can be fully explained within the development of Western ecclesiastical thought, without invoking Gnostic sectarianism. From a historical-empirical perspective Gnosticism is, in fact, principally opposed to immanent eschatologies. Joachim of Fiore, who, according to Voegelin, is the originator of modern Gnosticism, aptly illustrates this incompatibility. This essay also aims to show how Voegelin became increasingly aware of this problem and, accordingly, formulated a much more adequate and convincing version of the Gnosis-thesis in The Ecumenic Age (1974). The final section of the essay returns to the question of the relation of Gnosis and revolution.
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Apply now for scholarships in the Department of history at Central European University. https://history.ceu.edu/howtoapply Breaking down disciplinary and geographical borders, our programs offer broad-based training in the history of... more
Apply now for scholarships in the Department of history at Central European University.
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Breaking down disciplinary and geographical borders, our programs offer
broad-based training in the history of Eastern, Central and Western Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia. Guided by an international faculty from 16 countries, you will take a closer look at the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman Empires as well as the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century through the lens of religious, cultural, intellectual and social history. You will also benefit from our innovative approach to researching, understanding and teaching comparative and transnational history.
https://history.ceu.edu/howtoapply
Breaking down disciplinary and geographical borders, our programs offer
broad-based training in the history of Eastern, Central and Western Europe, the Eastern Mediterranean, the Middle East and Central Asia. Guided by an international faculty from 16 countries, you will take a closer look at the Habsburg, Romanov and Ottoman Empires as well as the totalitarian regimes of the 20th century through the lens of religious, cultural, intellectual and social history. You will also benefit from our innovative approach to researching, understanding and teaching comparative and transnational history.
Research Interests: History, Modern History, Intellectual History, Ottoman History, Soviet History, and 15 moreEarly Modern History, History of Religion, Comparative History, History of Science, Cold War, Totalitarianism, Habsburg Studies, Post-Soviet Studies, History of Political Thought, Russian History, Social History, History of the Eastern Mediterranean, Comparative Historical Analysis, Central and Eastern Europe, and Religious Studies
Research Interests: Intellectual History, Ottoman History, Soviet History, Early Modern History, Middle East Studies, and 15 moreHistory of Religion, Gender History, Transnationalism, Public History, History of Science, Habsburg Studies, Political History, History of Political Thought, Global History, Russian History, Labor History and Studies, History of Turkish Republic, Comparative Historical Analysis, Central and Eastern Europe, and Graduate Studies
Our conference aims at examining the main reasons, the push and pull factors that drove individuals, families, smaller or bigger communities, ethnic and religious groups to seek out for new abodes temporarily or in the long run. We invite... more
Our conference aims at examining the main reasons, the push and pull factors that drove individuals, families, smaller or bigger communities, ethnic and religious groups to seek out for new abodes temporarily or in the long run. We invite speakers to address the issue of migration, exile, and diaspora in all periods of history, and with the methods of all branches and disciplines of the humanities and social sciences, including but not restricted to archaeology, art history, historical geography, social, political, religious, intellectual, and cultural history. Presentations should preferably go beyond being merely descriptive: individual case studies can still address the complexity of factors that impacted these communities, or apply a comparative perspective on the topic. Papers discussing the impact of migration and dislocation on various aspects of life of these groups, as well as on their place of origin and the host societies, are also welcome.
Research Interests: History, Ancient History, Modern History, Cultural History, Historical Geography, and 15 moreMedieval History, History of Religion, Refugee Studies, Diasporas, Contemporary History, Migration, Political History, Exile, History of Political Thought, Global History, Migration Studies, Diaspora Studies, Social History, Exile Literature, and Comparative Historical Analysis
Workshop, 20-21 May 2019, Prague