Brayton Polka
Biographic Data
| ID | 1306994 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Brayton Polka |
| GIVEN NAMES | Brayton |
| FAMILY NAME | Polka |
| SIGNATURE | POLKA B |
| AFFILIATIONS | York University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 62 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 62 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1967 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
On the Enigma of the Jewish Creation of Christianity
In her book the distinguished historian of early Christian history, Paula Fredriksen, provides an incisive study of what she calls the Jesus-movement from the time of the execution of Jesus on a Ro
The Readiness Is All
The prolific philosopher Mark C. Taylor, in his book, Abiding Grace, appears to be bringing his distinguished career to an end. The final chapter of his book is entitled “Ending Ending.” Taylor int
On the Creative Will of Covenantal Grace
In his book Hune Margulies provides an account of Martin Buber’s dialogical philosophy that is at once truly insightful and deeply problematic. Margulies shows that the I-thou philosophy of Buber
Love of Neighbor as the Golden Rule of Modernity
In this study of spiritual experience as involving what he calls intuitive knowledge, Phillip Wiebe argues that there is substantial evidence for the existence of spirits. He supports his argument
On Responding Ultimately to Ultimate Questions
Brian Magee, eminent philosopher, music and theater critic, and one-time BBC broadcaster and Member of Parliament, writes that his aim in this slim book “is to express my thoughts as directly as I
The Philosophical Foundations of Democracy
In the Conclusion of his noteworthy study of three of the principal founders of modern democracy, in both theory and practice, Lee Ward writes that his aim was “to reinvigorate contemporary reflect
Levinas between Philosophy and the Bible
In this book on Emmanuel Levinas, the well-known and much-discussed Jewish philosopher who died in 1995, leaving behind a large corpus of both philosophic and Talmudic writings, ten scholars in ind
How to Think Origins, or On the Origin of Thinking
Ignaas Devisch writes in his engaging study of the eminent French philosopher, Jean-Luc Nancy, who was born in 1940, that we “should not deplore the fact that this world has no origin, direction, o
How Do We Know What We Know
In undertaking to show “What Makes Us Tick,” to cite the title of the last chapter of his book, Philip Lieberman writes in the preface that he focuses “on research that points to understanding how
On Methodology and Metaphysics, or What Does Philosophy Have to Do with Religion
Tragedy Ancient and Modern
In his learned study Joshua Billings discusses how German philosophers, from, broadly, Lessing in the mid eighteenth century to Hegel and Holderin in the early nineteenth century, make engagement w
The Will to Exist
In my essay I argue that the critical distinction that Spinoza makes between two concepts of desire, as also between two concepts of the good, captures the distinction that Tertullian makes in posing the question: What does Athens have to do with Jerusalem? In identifying the good with desire—desire with the good—and in denying that desire is dependent on the good in itself (e.g., Plato’s form of the good), Spinoza shows us that philosophy, as et…
Hebrew Scripture and the Wisdom of Philosophical Reason, or What Has Athens to Do with Jerusalem
The Philosophy of Love and the Bible
The Art of Existence
This is the most disheartening book that I have ever read—because, weirdly, it is so right. Its authors raise the most fundamental questions about art. What is the point of art? What is the aim of
On Sin as Human History Comprehended
I want to thank Lee Danes, Jason Harman, Jason Hoult, and Mohamed Khimji for reading my essay-review and for sharing their comments on it with me
On Humanism and the Bible
In the opening sentence of the Introduction to his book the author states that it “is an attempt to recall the central importance of humanism for Western culture and to retrieve the religious roots
The Story of Modern Wine Production
AcknowledgmentI want to thank Robert Wolfe for reading my review essay and sharing his comments on it with me
The Single Individual in Kierkegaard
The critical issue that I examine in my study, which is divided into two parts, is how we are to interpret, within what Kierkegaard regards as “the present age,” his concept of the single individual when viewed in light of the hermeneutical distinction that he makes between Christianity and Christendom. Since the distinction between Christianity and Christendom is not one between the religious and the secular or between faith and reason but one b…
Covenantal Sinning as the Truth of History and Morality
I want to thank Carl Ehrlich, Jason Hoult and Mohamed Khimji for reading my review essay and for providing me with critical comments on it
Self-Referentiality and Philosophy
AcknowledgmentI want to thank Jason Hoult, Christopher Irwin, and Mohamed Khimji for reading my review essay and providing me with critical comments on it
In Search of the True Hegel
I want to thank Mark Cauchi and Christopher Irwin for reading my review-essay and for providing me with critical comments on it.Notes1. When, in a single paragraph of my review-essay, I cite consecutively two or more passages from the same page of Hegel & the Infinite, the page number is given at the end of the last passage cited.2. An apt example of the constipated reading of Hegel, as found among those committed to postmodern deconstruction, an…
The Single Individual in Kierkegaard
In Part 2 of my study I focus on Works of Love of Kierkegaard in analyzing his concept of the single individual in light of what I call the hermeneutics of the relationship of the religious and the secular. I continue to emphasize that the hermeneutical distinction that Kierkegaard critically makes between Christianity and Christendom is the distinction, not between the religious and the secular but between, rather, a true understanding of the re…
Hobbes and the Sovereignty of the Golden Rule
Theology and the Deconstruction of Derrida
Renaissance and Revolution
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Skinner’s Foundations
Truth and Metaphor
When Auerbach writes in Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature that, although Homer can be analyzed, he cannot be interpreted, he puts the reader on notice that not all verbal discourse embodies the structure of interpretation. He equally shows the reader that there is discourse which, in order to be read, must be interpreted-that of the Bible and its heirs. Although Mimesis has long been celebrated, its readers have not pro…
Beyond the Pleasure Principle
Encountering Freud
Spinoza's Concept of Biblical Interpretation
The seductions of psychoanalysis
(1994). The seductions of psychoanalysis: Freud, Lacan and Derrida. History of European Ideas: Vol. 18, No. 3, pp. 456-457
The Freudian reading
Freud, Science, and the Psychoanalytic Critique of Religion
Freud, Science, and the Psychoanalytic Critique of Religion: The Paradox of Self-Referentiality Get access Brayton Polka Brayton Polka Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Religion, Volume LXII, Issue 1, Spring 1994, Pages 59–84, https://doi.org/10.1093/jaarel/LXII.1.59 Published: 01 March 1994
The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sándor Ferenczi
(1995). The Correspondence of Sigmund Freud and Sandor Ferenczi. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 5, pp. 707-709
The cambridge companion to Freud
(1995). The cambridge companion to Freud. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 4, pp. 571-574
The Freudian Left
1995). The Freudian Left: Wilhelm Reich, Geza Roheim, Herbert Marcuse. History of European Ideas: Vol. 21, No. 1, pp. 151-153
Spinoza and Biblical interpretation
C.G. Jung's Visions
Visions: Notes of the Seminar Given in 1930–1934. By C.G. Jung. Ed. Claire Douglas (Princeton, NJ: Princeton University Press, 1997) 2 vols., xl + 1,458 pp. $125.00 cloth
Freud, the Bible, and Hermeneutics
(2001). Freud, the Bible, and Hermeneutics. The European Legacy: Vol. 6, No. 3, pp. 319-332
History Between Biblical Religion and Modernity. Reflections on Rawls'Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy
(2002). History Between Biblical Religion and Modernity. Reflections on Rawls' Lectures on the History of Moral Philosophy. The European Legacy: Vol. 7, No. 4, pp. 445-451
Philosophy without God? God without Philosophy
In this paper it is argued that, while the case that Antony Flew makes against philosophically invalid arguments for the existence of God is generally sound, he fails to comprehend the power and cogency of the ontological argument. Thus, his conception of the grounds of morality, separate from the biblical tradition of theology, is by no means compelling. This paper aims to show that the rational (i.e. the non-reductive) concept of morality that …
The Revenge of Hamlet
Hamlet, Protestantism, and the Mourning of Contingency: Not To Be. By John E. Curran, Jr. (Aldershot, UK: Ashgate, 2006), xxix + 246 pp. £55.00 cloth. In his relentlessly argued yet deeply flawed s
Coriolanusand the Roman World of Contradiction
This study argues that Shakespeare's aim in Coriolanus is twofold: (1) to depict the ancient world of Rome as dominated by contradiction; and (2) to signal to us moderns, in the biblical tradition, that we can comprehend or, in other words, interpret the contradictory world of the ancients solely on the basis of a paradoxical world elsewhere, beyond contradiction. Shakespeare thus shows us how important it is to distinguish between the contradict…
Levinas between the Bible and Philosophy
Outside the Subject. By Emmanuel Levinas. Translated by Michael B. Smith (London: Continuum, 2008), xx + 135 pp. £12.99 paper. Levinas, who died in 1995, selected and arranged the essays that compr
What Is Democracy? Reflections on Sen's Idea of Justice
Jung on Shakespeare
On ThinkingThe Modern Philosophical Revolutionin Light of the Bible
What Ought We To Do? Democracy as the Liberating Story of Historical Critique
Enlightenment Heroes and the Ideal of Moral Clarity
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