Michael Fagenblat
Biographic Data
| ID | 1149038 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Fagenblat |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Fagenblat |
| SIGNATURE | FAGENBLAT M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Monash University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-2321-2682 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 20 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 19 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Elective Affinity
This article examines the way Heidegger’s account of the unique spiritual mission of the German people is haunted by certain conceptions of the election of Israel. I argue that Heidegger’s political ontology is informed by three conceptions of the mission of Israel: biblical salvation history, kabbalistic panentheism, and Germany literary Hebraism. To link these disparate historical phenomena to Heidegger’s account of the mission of being German,…
Paganism as a Political Problem
In response to the rise of neopagan fascist political theologies in Europe in the 1930s, the young Emmanuel Levinas developed a novel conception of the theopolitical role of Judaism. The existing scholarly consensus maintains that (1) Levinas responded to the rise of pagan Hitlerism by opposing it to a Jewish conception of transcendence and (2) this putative contrast involved a critique of Heidegger's thought, which Levinas identified with pagan …
Levinas and Literature
Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity
The Mixed Multitude
Book Review| January 01 2015 The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916 Maciejko, Pawel, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 376 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 104–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818105 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
The Faith of the Faithless
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology Critchley, Simon, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology (London: Verso, 2012), 291 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 565–566. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281945 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
The Monstrosity of Christ
Response
My reading of Levinas's magnificent philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being is based on two primary convictions. The first is that Levinas's philosophical works , in which he addresses and enjoins people without regard for identity (without regard for peoplehood and law), were produced out of strong readings of the Judaic tradition. Samuel Moyn showed how deeply Levinas was nurtured by interwar Protestant philosophical…
A covenant of creatures
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life
Book Review| April 01 2009 Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 121 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 218. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-067 Cite Icon Cite Share …
The Unthought Debt
Book Review| August 01 2009 The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage Marlène Zarader, The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), 255 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 507–508. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
Levinas and Maimonides
After an initially sympathetic reading of Maimonides, Levinas develops an ambivalent attitude toward the Great Eagle, whom he views as a champion of intellectualist Judaism. Nevertheless, insights from the early engagement with Maimonides are carried forth into the central claims of Totality and Infinity regarding freedom, creation, particularity and transcendence. Levinas' arguments are directed at Heidegger but can also be seen as a phenomenolo…
Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism . Menachem Kellner
Maimonides on the Origin of the World . Kenneth Seeskin
Moses Maimonides
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment
Lacking All Interest
To bear witness to God is precisely not to state this extraordinary word. —Emmanuel Levinas
"Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn
Book Review| April 01 2004 Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 354–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-354 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Fagenblat; Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate. Common …
Il y a du quotidien
Levinas's notion of il y a (there is) existence is shown to be the organizing principle behind his challenge to Being and Time . The two main aspects of that challenge propose an ontology that is not entirely reduced to being-in-the-world and a correlative account of the self that is not entirely reduced to context. In that way Levinas attempts first to restore unconditional value to the self and then to `produce' a pluralist social ontology base…
Being Singular Plural
Book Review| January 01 2002 Being Singular Plural Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 210. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-210 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Fagenblat; Being Singular Plural. Common Knowledge 1 January 2002; 8 (1): 210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-210 Download citation fil…
Il y a du quotidien
Levinas's notion of il y a (there is) existence is shown to be the organizing principle behind his challenge to Being and Time . The two main aspects of that challenge propose an ontology that is not entirely reduced to being-in-the-world and a correlative account of the self that is not entirely reduced to context. In that way Levinas attempts first to restore unconditional value to the self and then to `produce' a pluralist social ontology base…
Il y a du quotidien
Levinas's notion of il y a (there is) existence is shown to be the organizing principle behind his challenge to Being and Time . The two main aspects of that challenge propose an ontology that is not entirely reduced to being-in-the-world and a correlative account of the self that is not entirely reduced to context. In that way Levinas attempts first to restore unconditional value to the self and then to `produce' a pluralist social ontology base…
Being Singular Plural
Book Review| January 01 2002 Being Singular Plural Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2002) 8 (1): 210. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-210 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Twitter Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Fagenblat; Being Singular Plural. Common Knowledge 1 January 2002; 8 (1): 210. doi: https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-8-1-210 Download citation fil…
Lacking All Interest
To bear witness to God is precisely not to state this extraordinary word. —Emmanuel Levinas
"Phenomenology and the "Theological Turn
Book Review| April 01 2004 Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2004) 10 (2): 354–355. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-10-2-354 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permissions Search Site Citation Michael Fagenblat; Phenomenology and the “Theological Turn”: The French Debate. Common …
Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment
Moses Maimonides
Maimonides on the Origin of the World . Kenneth Seeskin
Levinas and Maimonides
After an initially sympathetic reading of Maimonides, Levinas develops an ambivalent attitude toward the Great Eagle, whom he views as a champion of intellectualist Judaism. Nevertheless, insights from the early engagement with Maimonides are carried forth into the central claims of Totality and Infinity regarding freedom, creation, particularity and transcendence. Levinas' arguments are directed at Heidegger but can also be seen as a phenomenolo…
Maimonides' Confrontation with Mysticism . Menachem Kellner
Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life
Book Review| April 01 2009 Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein (Bloomington: Indiana University Press, 2008), 121 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (2): 218. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2008-067 Cite Icon Cite Share …
The Unthought Debt
Book Review| August 01 2009 The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage Marlène Zarader, The Unthought Debt: Heidegger and the Hebraic Heritage, trans. Bettina Bergo (Stanford, CA: Stanford University Press, 2006), 255 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2009) 15 (3): 507–508. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754x-2009-033 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebo…
A covenant of creatures
Response
My reading of Levinas's magnificent philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being is based on two primary convictions. The first is that Levinas's philosophical works , in which he addresses and enjoins people without regard for identity (without regard for peoplehood and law), were produced out of strong readings of the Judaic tradition. Samuel Moyn showed how deeply Levinas was nurtured by interwar Protestant philosophical…
The Faith of the Faithless
Book Review| August 01 2013 The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology Critchley, Simon, The Faith of the Faithless: Experiments in Political Theology (London: Verso, 2012), 291 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2013) 19 (3): 565–566. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2281945 Cite Icon Cite Share Icon Share Facebook Twitter LinkedIn MailTo Permiss…
The Monstrosity of Christ
The Mixed Multitude
Book Review| January 01 2015 The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916 Maciejko, Pawel, The Mixed Multitude: Jacob Frank and the Frankist Movement, 1755–1916. (Philadelphia: University of Pennsylvania Press, 2011), 376 pp. Michael Fagenblat Michael Fagenblat Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Common Knowledge (2015) 21 (1): 104–105. https://doi.org/10.1215/0961754X-2818105 Cite Icon Cite Share I…
Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity
Levinas and Literature
Elective Affinity
This article examines the way Heidegger’s account of the unique spiritual mission of the German people is haunted by certain conceptions of the election of Israel. I argue that Heidegger’s political ontology is informed by three conceptions of the mission of Israel: biblical salvation history, kabbalistic panentheism, and Germany literary Hebraism. To link these disparate historical phenomena to Heidegger’s account of the mission of being German,…
Paganism as a Political Problem
In response to the rise of neopagan fascist political theologies in Europe in the 1930s, the young Emmanuel Levinas developed a novel conception of the theopolitical role of Judaism. The existing scholarly consensus maintains that (1) Levinas responded to the rise of pagan Hitlerism by opposing it to a Jewish conception of transcendence and (2) this putative contrast involved a critique of Heidegger's thought, which Levinas identified with pagan …
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