Peter Makhlouf
Biographic Data
| ID | 1479367 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Peter Makhlouf |
| GIVEN NAMES | Peter |
| FAMILY NAME | Makhlouf |
| SIGNATURE | MAKHLOUF P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Princeton University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4832-8171 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 5 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 5 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2019 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Kaisermystik: Aby Warburg and the development of a political theurgy
Prophecy Between Poetics and Politics from Al-Farabi to Leo Strauss
The Destruction of the Voice
The musical orality of the lyric voice constitutes one of the most formidable and persistent facets of the ideology of German Romanticism, one that is further bequeathed to the arts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the musicality of the voice and the ineffability of “absolute” music as its point of departure, this essay investigates a series of primarily German-Jewish figures—Kafka, Schoenberg, Straub-Huillet, and Celan—who…
Homer: The Very Idea
Over the past few years, I’ve found myself working on the 1688 medical dissertation by Johannes Hofer in which the word nostalgia was coined. What was bafflingly unclear was why Hofer had formed the term the way he did. Words that end in -algia (from the Greek algon, “pain”) typically name in the first half of the word the localization of the pain. Thus cephalgia means a “headache” (kephalos = head). Nostalgia would mean a pain in the nostos (hom…
The End of Intellectuals
In 1979, Edward Said attended a colloquy on Middle East politics hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Les Temps Modernes in the apartment of Michel Foucault. He would later go on to publish his reflections on this experience in a short piece titled "Diary." Reading this piece alongside Said's larger oeuvre, as well as those of his predecessors Foucault and Antonio Gramsci, this article attempts to offer a theory of intellectual responsibility that may …
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The End of Intellectuals
In 1979, Edward Said attended a colloquy on Middle East politics hosted by Jean-Paul Sartre and Les Temps Modernes in the apartment of Michel Foucault. He would later go on to publish his reflections on this experience in a short piece titled "Diary." Reading this piece alongside Said's larger oeuvre, as well as those of his predecessors Foucault and Antonio Gramsci, this article attempts to offer a theory of intellectual responsibility that may …
Homer: The Very Idea
Over the past few years, I’ve found myself working on the 1688 medical dissertation by Johannes Hofer in which the word nostalgia was coined. What was bafflingly unclear was why Hofer had formed the term the way he did. Words that end in -algia (from the Greek algon, “pain”) typically name in the first half of the word the localization of the pain. Thus cephalgia means a “headache” (kephalos = head). Nostalgia would mean a pain in the nostos (hom…
Prophecy Between Poetics and Politics from Al-Farabi to Leo Strauss
The Destruction of the Voice
The musical orality of the lyric voice constitutes one of the most formidable and persistent facets of the ideology of German Romanticism, one that is further bequeathed to the arts of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Taking the musicality of the voice and the ineffability of “absolute” music as its point of departure, this essay investigates a series of primarily German-Jewish figures—Kafka, Schoenberg, Straub-Huillet, and Celan—who…
Kaisermystik: Aby Warburg and the development of a political theurgy
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