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The Pariah And The Poet: Hannah Arendt’S Alternative Reading Of Goethe’S «Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre» As A Critique Of Enlightenment «Bildung», John Macready Dec 2018

The Pariah And The Poet: Hannah Arendt’S Alternative Reading Of Goethe’S «Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre» As A Critique Of Enlightenment «Bildung», John Macready

John Macready

The German ideal of Bildung—the process of self-development through culture that Goethe dramatized in Wilhelm Meisters Lehrjahre—and its connection to the crises of Jewish emancipation in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries has been the topic of intense scholarly discussion. At issue is whether Bildung compromised Jewish identity. One of the earliest and strongest critics of Bildung was Hannah Arendt. Although Bildung was seen by many Jewish intellectuals, like Moses Mendelssohn, to be an answer to widespread anti-Judaism in European society, Arendt saw it as an apolitical concept that jeopardized Jewish emancipation in Europe. Arendt was skeptical of the …


A Brush With Weimar Germany.Docx, Rowan Cahill May 2017

A Brush With Weimar Germany.Docx, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

A snippet of memoir regarding the 1960s, and the impact of historian Associate Professor Ernest K Bramsted (1901-1978) on the author during his undergraduate years at Sydney University (1964-1968).


The Barber Who Read History And Was Overwhelmed, Rowan Cahill Jul 2016

The Barber Who Read History And Was Overwhelmed, Rowan Cahill

Rowan Cahill

Beginning with a chance encounter in a Barber's shop whilst travelling, the author ruminates on history, and the proposition that each and everyone of us is an historian, and that in a sense we are all time travellers. Bertolt Brecht (1898-1956) is invoked, and the role of radical historians from below discussed before the author returns to his Barber shop encounter, and to Brecht. The title of the piece references Brecht's poem A Worker Reads History (1936).


The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner Dec 2015

The Catholic Enlightenment. The Forgotten History Of A Global Movement, Ulrich Lehner

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.


Enlightenment And Catholicism In Europe. A Transnational History, Ulrich Lehner, Jeffrey Burson Mar 2014

Enlightenment And Catholicism In Europe. A Transnational History, Ulrich Lehner, Jeffrey Burson

Ulrich L. Lehner

No abstract provided.


The Landscapes Through Which We Travelled, Scott Abbott Dec 2012

The Landscapes Through Which We Travelled, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

A translation of an homage to Austrian author Peter Handke on his 70th Birthday


Nietzsche And Lou, Eros And Art : On Lou’S Triangles And The « Exquisite Dream » Of Sacro Monte, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Nietzsche And Lou, Eros And Art : On Lou’S Triangles And The « Exquisite Dream » Of Sacro Monte, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No abstract provided.


Le Zarathoustra De Nietzsche Et Le Style Parodique. A Propos De L’Hyperanthropos De Lucien Et Du Surhomme De Nietzsche, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Le Zarathoustra De Nietzsche Et Le Style Parodique. A Propos De L’Hyperanthropos De Lucien Et Du Surhomme De Nietzsche, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

Abstract Nietzsche’s Übermensch is derived from Lucian of Samosata’s term hyperanthropos. I argue that Zarathustra’s teaching of the overman acquires new resonances in the context of that terminological origination in Lucian’s Kataplous — literally: sailing into port — referring to the journey of the soul into the afterlife, as escorted by Hermes and ferried by Charon along with myriads of others facing the same fate. The Kataplous he tyrannos, a title usually rendered as the Downward Journey (or The Tyrant), is a Menippean satire telling the tale of the “overman” supposed superior to others of “lesser” station in this-worldly life …


Nietzsche And Eros Between The Devil And God’S Deep Blue Sea: The Problem Of The Artist As Actor–Jew–Woman, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Nietzsche And Eros Between The Devil And God’S Deep Blue Sea: The Problem Of The Artist As Actor–Jew–Woman, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

In just one aphorism in The Gay Science, Nietzsche arrays “The Problem of the Artist” in a complex, highly reticulated constellation. Addressing every member of the excluded grouping of disenfranchised “others,” Nietzsche turns to the destitution of a god of love keyed to the self- or inward-turning absorption of the human heart. His ultimate and irrecusably tragic project to restore the innocence of becoming requires the affirmation of the problem of suffering as the task of learning how to love. Nietzsche sees the eros of art as what can teach us how to make things beautiful, desirable, lovable in the …


Zu Nietzsches Stil, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Zu Nietzsches Stil, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

Das Thema von Nietzsches Stil ist hier sowohl von Bedeutung als Frage nach dem Wesen jenes Stils wie auch als Frage danach, was er in philosophischer, nicht einfach in asthetischer oder literarischer Hinsicht erreicht hat. Hier wird nachgelegt, dass die Kunst des Lesens, die technische Kunst des hörens als eine Art des Hörens in einer philosophischen Seinsweise zu verstehen sei. Damit setzt sie nicht allein eine diskursive Kunst musikalischen Gespürs seitens des schreibenden, sondern eigentlich auch seitens des Lesenden voraus. Untersucht wird vor allem, Nietzsches Aphorismos im Rahmen des Antisemitismus. Diese außerordentlich komplexe innere Ausrichtung von Nietzsches Stil ist die …


Adorno On Science And Nihilism, Animals, And Jews, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Adorno On Science And Nihilism, Animals, And Jews, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No less than Heidegger or Nietzsche, Adorno had his own critical notions of truth/untruth. But Adorno’s readers are unsettled by the barest hint of anything that might be taken to be anti-science. Thus it is argued that Adorno opposes not science but scientism. But, and here not unlike Arendt, Adorno argued that so-called “scientistic” tendencies are the very conditions of society and of scientific thought.” I ask how we are to read Adorno by exploring his thought on animals and nihilism.


Greek Bronze: Holding A Mirror To Life, Expanded Reprint From The Irish Philosophical Yearbook 2006: In Memoriam John J. Cleary 1949-2009, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Greek Bronze: Holding A Mirror To Life, Expanded Reprint From The Irish Philosophical Yearbook 2006: In Memoriam John J. Cleary 1949-2009, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

To explore the ethical and political role of life-sized bronzes in ancient Greece, as Pliny and others report between 3,000 and 73,000 such statues in a city like Rhodes, this article asks what these bronzes looked like. Using the resources of hermeneutic phenomenological reflection, as well as a review of the nature of bronze and casting techniques, it is argued that the ancient Greeks encountered such statues as images of themselves in agonistic tension in dynamic and political fashion. The Greek saw, and at the same time felt himself regarded by, the statue not as he believed the statue divine …


Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie - Vorrede, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Nietzsches Wissenschaftsphilosophie - Vorrede, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

Wo Kant als Begründer der modernen philosophischen Kritik die Absicht hatte, die Grundlagen der Möglichkeit einer jeden künftigen Metaphysik aufzuzeigen, die als Wissenschaft würde auftreten können, artikuliert Nietzsches Kritik die Grundlegung für jede Wissenschaftstheorie, die als Philosophie auftreten und Philosophie bleiben kann. Eine kritische, reflektierte Wissenschaftstheorie zu etablieren, ist nur als Philosophie möglich,

während das, was man Philosophy of Science – also deutsch: Wissenschaftstheorie – im traditionell analytischen Sinn genannt hat, tatsächlich keine Philosophie ist.

In diesem Buch wird die Wissenschaftsphilosophie Nietzsches aus der Perspektive einer Befragung des Wesens der Wissenschaft unter der Optik der Kunst betrachtet. Dies schließt die …


Ex Aliquo Nihil: Nietzsche On Science And Modern Nihilism. Acpq, 84-2 (Spring 2010): 231-256., Babette Babich Nov 2012

Ex Aliquo Nihil: Nietzsche On Science And Modern Nihilism. Acpq, 84-2 (Spring 2010): 231-256., Babette Babich

Babette Babich

This essay explores the nihilistic coincidence of the ascetic ideal and Nietzsche’s localization of science in the conceptual world of anarchic socialism as Nietzsche indicts the uncritical convictions of modern science by way of a critique of the causa sui, questioning both religion and the enlightenment as well as both free and unfree will and condemning the “poor philology” enshrined in the language of the “laws” of nature. Reviewing the history of philosophical nihilism in the context of Nietzsche’s “tragic knowledge” along with political readings of nihilism, willing nothing rather than not willing at all, today’s this-worldly and very planetary …


Words In Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy And Poetry, Music And Eros In Hölderlin, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Words In Blood, Like Flowers: Philosophy And Poetry, Music And Eros In Hölderlin, Nietzsche, And Heidegger, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No abstract provided.


Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Ad Jacob Taubes, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No abstract provided.


Nietzsche’S Post-Human Imperative: On The “All-Too-Human” Dream Of Transhumanism, Babette Babich Nov 2012

Nietzsche’S Post-Human Imperative: On The “All-Too-Human” Dream Of Transhumanism, Babette Babich

Babette Babich

No abstract provided.


Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott Oct 2012

Buchstäblich / Literally: New Work By Nina Pops, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

An exploration of the possibilities of painting a novel, of producing an abstract response to characters and plot of Zarko Radakovic's novel Pogled/Der Blick/The View.


Fixing The Sonosopher, Scott Abbott Aug 2012

Fixing The Sonosopher, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

Essay on the Documentary Film by Travis Low and Torben Bernhard


Peter Handke And The Language Of War, Scott Abbott Apr 2012

Peter Handke And The Language Of War, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Voyage By Dugout Or The Play Of The Film Of The War, By Peter Handke, Scott Abbott Apr 2012

Voyage By Dugout Or The Play Of The Film Of The War, By Peter Handke, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Scott Abbott Apr 2012

Affliction Fiction: Brian Evenson's Dark Work, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Selectedworks Part Ii: Conducting A Compelling Selectedworks Demo, Ann Taylor Aug 2011

Selectedworks Part Ii: Conducting A Compelling Selectedworks Demo, Ann Taylor

Ann Connolly

One of the best ways to encourage faculty to actively use SelectedWorks is to show them how easy it is. In this tutorial, we will discuss some of the basic value propositions of SelectedWorks and how to incorporate that into a compelling demo for faculty.


The Other Side Of The Limit, Scott Abbott May 2011

The Other Side Of The Limit, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott Feb 2011

Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott Feb 2011

Tinkering With Tenure, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Review Of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy: The Conception Of The Human Form In Literary And Naturalistic Discourse, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Review Of Stefani Engelstein, Anxious Anatomy: The Conception Of The Human Form In Literary And Naturalistic Discourse, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Immortal For Quite Some Time, Part 2, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Immortal For Quite Some Time, Part 2, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Immortal For Quite Some Time: Part One, Scott Abbott Dec 2010

Immortal For Quite Some Time: Part One, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.


Review Essay: Dreamland, Scott Abbott Dec 2009

Review Essay: Dreamland, Scott Abbott

Scott Abbott

No abstract provided.