David Martyn
Biographic Data
| ID | 1097856 |
|---|---|
| NAME | David Martyn |
| GIVEN NAMES | David |
| FAMILY NAME | Martyn |
| SIGNATURE | MARTYN D |
| AFFILIATIONS | Columbia International University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 10 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
The Pace of Peace
Among the perennial questions raised by Kant's political philosophy is how its uncompromising rational principles are to be reconciled with the messy and empirical but no less uncompromising demands of historical time—of what Martin Luther King Jr. memorably called the “urgency of now.” The article finds an answer in the quality of the time that Toward Perpetual Peace both describes and models. Reading the figures of the “moral politician” and th…
Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace
Kant and Literary Studies
Expropriating Antisemitism
The perennial issue of whether Marx's notorious review of Bruno Bauer's early writings on the "Jewish Problem" are themselves antisemitic has always been tied up with the equally fraught issue of Marx's own Jewish "identity." The aim of the present essay is to reframe this debate and to ask whether, by taking Marx's positionality as a perceived Jew as well as that of his various implied readers into account, Marx's provocatively disturbing respon…
Genius, Idiotism, Translingualism
Genius, Idiotism, Translingualism:Maimon and Kant David Martyn (bio) The thesis of the present essay is already contained in the contradictory meanings of one of the words of its title. "Idiotism," the OED tells us, can mean "[i]gnorance; lack of knowledge or culture"; "the condition of being void of intellect or reason"; "extreme folly, senselessness, or stupidity, exhibited in thought or conduct." But "idiotism" does not just connote "idiot," b…
Figures of the Mean
This article explores the relationship between Heinrich von Kleist's “Allerneuester Erziehungsplan” (“Very Latest Educational Plan”) and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century statistical discourse. Both confront a common issue: the question of how a seemingly deterministic law that distributes individuals around a stable mean is compatible with the Enlightenment tenets of freedom and historical progress. The juxtaposition is mutually illuminati…
Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judentum
Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels Rettung der juden. Ed. David Martyn. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.172 pp. euro15.50 paperback. This new edition of Mendelssohn's texts from 1782 and 1783 is most welcome for three principle reasons: the importance for cultural and philosophical history of the texts that are being made available here in an affordable format; the significant d…
Borrowed Fatherland
1997). Borrowed Fatherland: Nationalism and Language Purism in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 303-315
Constituting Critique
Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product-a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing…
The Idea of God Among Roman Catholic Children Aged Seven and Eight
Borrowed Fatherland
1997). Borrowed Fatherland: Nationalism and Language Purism in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 303-315
Constituting Critique
Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product-a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing…
The Idea of God Among Roman Catholic Children Aged Seven and Eight
Constituting Critique
Kant's philosophy is often treated as a closed system, without reference to how it was written or how Kant arrived at its familiar form, the critique. In fact, the style of the critique seems so artless that readers think of it as an unfortunate by-product-a style of stylelessness. In Constituting Critique, Willi Goetschel shows how this apparent gracelessness was deliberately achieved by Kant through a series of writing experiments. By providing…
Borrowed Fatherland
1997). Borrowed Fatherland: Nationalism and Language Purism in Fichte's Addresses to the German Nation. The Germanic Review: Literature, Culture, Theory: Vol. 72, No. 4, pp. 303-315
Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und Judentum
Mendelssohn, Moses. Jerusalem oder uber religiose Macht und judentum: Vorrede zu Mannaseh Ben Israels Rettung der juden. Ed. David Martyn. Bielefeld: Aisthesis Verlag, 2001.172 pp. euro15.50 paperback. This new edition of Mendelssohn's texts from 1782 and 1783 is most welcome for three principle reasons: the importance for cultural and philosophical history of the texts that are being made available here in an affordable format; the significant d…
Figures of the Mean
This article explores the relationship between Heinrich von Kleist's “Allerneuester Erziehungsplan” (“Very Latest Educational Plan”) and late eighteenth- and nineteenth-century statistical discourse. Both confront a common issue: the question of how a seemingly deterministic law that distributes individuals around a stable mean is compatible with the Enlightenment tenets of freedom and historical progress. The juxtaposition is mutually illuminati…
Genius, Idiotism, Translingualism
Genius, Idiotism, Translingualism:Maimon and Kant David Martyn (bio) The thesis of the present essay is already contained in the contradictory meanings of one of the words of its title. "Idiotism," the OED tells us, can mean "[i]gnorance; lack of knowledge or culture"; "the condition of being void of intellect or reason"; "extreme folly, senselessness, or stupidity, exhibited in thought or conduct." But "idiotism" does not just connote "idiot," b…
Kant and Literary Studies
Expropriating Antisemitism
The perennial issue of whether Marx's notorious review of Bruno Bauer's early writings on the "Jewish Problem" are themselves antisemitic has always been tied up with the equally fraught issue of Marx's own Jewish "identity." The aim of the present essay is to reframe this debate and to ask whether, by taking Marx's positionality as a perceived Jew as well as that of his various implied readers into account, Marx's provocatively disturbing respon…
The Pace of Peace
Among the perennial questions raised by Kant's political philosophy is how its uncompromising rational principles are to be reconciled with the messy and empirical but no less uncompromising demands of historical time—of what Martin Luther King Jr. memorably called the “urgency of now.” The article finds an answer in the quality of the time that Toward Perpetual Peace both describes and models. Reading the figures of the “moral politician” and th…
Perpetually Toward? Revisiting Kant on Global Peace
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