Page 1. HENT DE VRIES "Lapsus Absolu": Notes on ... Page 4. HENT DE VRIES 33 ..... more Page 1. HENT DE VRIES "Lapsus Absolu": Notes on ... Page 4. HENT DE VRIES 33 ... The apparent neutrality of this reference (neither an ap-probation nor a critique) deserves a patient and original treatment that we cannot undertake here. [Aporias, 87 n. 18] ...
... of creation. III. Boga nyet: No God Up Here Following Nancy, we ought to conclude that Heideg... more ... of creation. III. Boga nyet: No God Up Here Following Nancy, we ought to conclude that Heidegger ascribes to the manifest sky what Lévinas accuses him of attributing to the place (le Lieu), to the world, to the earth. It is worthwhile ...
Der Philosoph Hent de Vries untersucht das Verhältnis von Technik und Religion in Benjamins Text ... more Der Philosoph Hent de Vries untersucht das Verhältnis von Technik und Religion in Benjamins Text Rastelli erzählt. Im Zentrum der Interpretation steht die Erfahrung des Wunders, die Benjamin häufig in einen Zusammenhang mit technischen Apparaturen bringt. Rastelli erzählt behandelt das Verhältnis von Religion und Materialismus mit erzählerischen Mitteln. Die Unmöglichkeit, die Entstehung des Wunders und das Wunder selbst zu erklären, steht ihm zufolge im Zentrum von Benjamins Überzeugung, dass Religion und Materialismus sich nicht ausschließen müssen. Im Gegenteil. Vielmehr steht die Unauflösbarkeit des Wunders bei Benjamin paradigmatisch für die moderne Erfahrung von Religion, die keine Antworten mehr gibt, sondern neue Fragen aufwirft.
Abstract This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Ad... more Abstract This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno regarding the relationship between utopia and death. It unpacks the antinomy of death and analyzes the motif of an ever diminishing – and, hence, minimally theological – messianic hope in light of the no less theological trope of the restitution or redemption of all things, whose maximal effect ties a shared profound metaphysical intuition with a deeply pragmatic effect or impetus. This said, Bloch always remained a Schellingian Marxist, whereas Adorno ended up as Platonist of the non-identical. This is where their common path parts ways.
Preface Publications of Burcht Pranger Contributors Part 1: Literary Imagination 1. "Movesi ... more Preface Publications of Burcht Pranger Contributors Part 1: Literary Imagination 1. "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco...": Notes on a Sonnet of Petrarch, Peter Cramer 2. Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities: Notes on the Tableau Vivant, Frans-Willem Korsten 3. History and the Vertical Canon: Calvin's Institutes and Beckett, Ernst van den Hemel 4. Christ's Case and John Donne, "Seeing through his wounds": The Stigma of Martyrdom Transfigured, Anselm Haverkamp 5. Playing with History: The Satirical Portrayal of the Medieval Papacy on an Eighteenth-Century Deck of Playing Cards, Joke Spaans 6. From East to West: Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy, Alastair Hamilton 7. Labouring in Reason's Vineyard: Voltaire and the Allegory of Enlightenment, Madeleine Kasten Part 2: The Canon 8. The Search for the Canon and the Problem of Body and Soul, Piet de Rooy 9. Music at the Limits: Edward Said's Musical Elaborations, Rok...
... Review 10 (1987): 73-130; id., Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction (London: Verso, 1... more ... Review 10 (1987): 73-130; id., Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction (London: Verso, 1994), 11-60; and Richard Beardsworth, Derrida and ... human-istic scholarship kept my feet firmly on the ground; with Karin de Boer, Peter Dreyer, Paola Marrati, Beate Roessler, Jenny ...
In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the... more In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the journal Der Jude, wrote that the spirit of Jewish tradition was one of the most important and persistent themes in his thought.' Benjamin had met Buber earlier in 1914 when he had invited him to give a lecture for the 'Freie Studentenschaft' in Berlin, but his relation to him had from the very start been marked by a certain reservation which became even more evident after the outbreak of the war. It must have come as
This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experie... more This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experience in Theodor W. Adorno’s late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky’s manifesto “On the Spiritual in Art,” a text that Adorno engages in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky’s nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle’s paintings. This genealogy of motifs is of more than mere historical and anecdotal significance. At stake is nothing less than an accurate understanding of “spiritual experience [geistige Erfahrung]” as a more than merely theoretical matrix for what Adorno, in Negative Dialectics and the lecture courses, calls his materials studies. Rather than indicating largely esoteric or theosophical elements in Kandinsky’s influence on modernist aesthetic discourse, “spiritual experience,” in part read through the eyes of Kojève and, via him, Vladimir Soloviev, ...
Page 1. HENT DE VRIES "Lapsus Absolu": Notes on ... Page 4. HENT DE VRIES 33 ..... more Page 1. HENT DE VRIES "Lapsus Absolu": Notes on ... Page 4. HENT DE VRIES 33 ... The apparent neutrality of this reference (neither an ap-probation nor a critique) deserves a patient and original treatment that we cannot undertake here. [Aporias, 87 n. 18] ...
... of creation. III. Boga nyet: No God Up Here Following Nancy, we ought to conclude that Heideg... more ... of creation. III. Boga nyet: No God Up Here Following Nancy, we ought to conclude that Heidegger ascribes to the manifest sky what Lévinas accuses him of attributing to the place (le Lieu), to the world, to the earth. It is worthwhile ...
Der Philosoph Hent de Vries untersucht das Verhältnis von Technik und Religion in Benjamins Text ... more Der Philosoph Hent de Vries untersucht das Verhältnis von Technik und Religion in Benjamins Text Rastelli erzählt. Im Zentrum der Interpretation steht die Erfahrung des Wunders, die Benjamin häufig in einen Zusammenhang mit technischen Apparaturen bringt. Rastelli erzählt behandelt das Verhältnis von Religion und Materialismus mit erzählerischen Mitteln. Die Unmöglichkeit, die Entstehung des Wunders und das Wunder selbst zu erklären, steht ihm zufolge im Zentrum von Benjamins Überzeugung, dass Religion und Materialismus sich nicht ausschließen müssen. Im Gegenteil. Vielmehr steht die Unauflösbarkeit des Wunders bei Benjamin paradigmatisch für die moderne Erfahrung von Religion, die keine Antworten mehr gibt, sondern neue Fragen aufwirft.
Abstract This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Ad... more Abstract This article discusses the remarkable conversation between Ernst Bloch and Theodor W. Adorno regarding the relationship between utopia and death. It unpacks the antinomy of death and analyzes the motif of an ever diminishing – and, hence, minimally theological – messianic hope in light of the no less theological trope of the restitution or redemption of all things, whose maximal effect ties a shared profound metaphysical intuition with a deeply pragmatic effect or impetus. This said, Bloch always remained a Schellingian Marxist, whereas Adorno ended up as Platonist of the non-identical. This is where their common path parts ways.
Preface Publications of Burcht Pranger Contributors Part 1: Literary Imagination 1. "Movesi ... more Preface Publications of Burcht Pranger Contributors Part 1: Literary Imagination 1. "Movesi un vecchierel canuto et bianco...": Notes on a Sonnet of Petrarch, Peter Cramer 2. Moments of Indecision, Sovereign Possibilities: Notes on the Tableau Vivant, Frans-Willem Korsten 3. History and the Vertical Canon: Calvin's Institutes and Beckett, Ernst van den Hemel 4. Christ's Case and John Donne, "Seeing through his wounds": The Stigma of Martyrdom Transfigured, Anselm Haverkamp 5. Playing with History: The Satirical Portrayal of the Medieval Papacy on an Eighteenth-Century Deck of Playing Cards, Joke Spaans 6. From East to West: Jansenists, Orientalists, and the Eucharistic Controversy, Alastair Hamilton 7. Labouring in Reason's Vineyard: Voltaire and the Allegory of Enlightenment, Madeleine Kasten Part 2: The Canon 8. The Search for the Canon and the Problem of Body and Soul, Piet de Rooy 9. Music at the Limits: Edward Said's Musical Elaborations, Rok...
... Review 10 (1987): 73-130; id., Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction (London: Verso, 1... more ... Review 10 (1987): 73-130; id., Legislations: The Politics of Deconstruction (London: Verso, 1994), 11-60; and Richard Beardsworth, Derrida and ... human-istic scholarship kept my feet firmly on the ground; with Karin de Boer, Peter Dreyer, Paola Marrati, Beate Roessler, Jenny ...
In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the... more In May 1916, Walter Benjamin, in response to Martin Buber's request for a contribution to the journal Der Jude, wrote that the spirit of Jewish tradition was one of the most important and persistent themes in his thought.' Benjamin had met Buber earlier in 1914 when he had invited him to give a lecture for the 'Freie Studentenschaft' in Berlin, but his relation to him had from the very start been marked by a certain reservation which became even more evident after the outbreak of the war. It must have come as
This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experie... more This article revisits the original meaning of “spiritual” as distinct from “intellectual” experience in Theodor W. Adorno’s late work. It does so through the implicitly Hegelian motifs in Wassily Kandinsky’s manifesto “On the Spiritual in Art,” a text that Adorno engages in passing in his Aesthetic Theory and that was, in turn, deeply influenced by the thought of Kandinsky’s nephew Alexandre Kojève, who also wrote an essay on his uncle’s paintings. This genealogy of motifs is of more than mere historical and anecdotal significance. At stake is nothing less than an accurate understanding of “spiritual experience [geistige Erfahrung]” as a more than merely theoretical matrix for what Adorno, in Negative Dialectics and the lecture courses, calls his materials studies. Rather than indicating largely esoteric or theosophical elements in Kandinsky’s influence on modernist aesthetic discourse, “spiritual experience,” in part read through the eyes of Kojève and, via him, Vladimir Soloviev, ...
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