Paul E Nahme
Biographic Data
| ID | 2523009 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paul E Nahme |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paul E |
| FAMILY NAME | Nahme |
| SIGNATURE | NAHME P E |
| AFFILIATIONS | John Brown University |
| ORCID | 0009-0007-3482-0647 |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 2 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
“Three Generations Are All That Exist in Any Moment in Time”
This essay engages the kabbalistic thought of R. Shlomo Elyashiv on the question of generational descent and ascension, arguing that he offers a kabbalistic rendering of generational ascent that counters the traditional notion of generational descent. The essay then compares his view with that of Rav Kook
Ghosted
In this article, I introduce affect as a theoretical paradigm for describing and understanding the logic of racialization by focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century discourses of religion, Orientalism, and civic equality, and the specific case of Jewish racialization. Describing racialization primarily in affective terms, I focus on the case of Jewish “racial affect”—the unseen circulation of feelings about Jews, about what Je…
"Foreign Spirits in the "Nation of Kant
This essay suggests that a distinctive shift toward racializing antisemitism can be traced in early twentieth-century German philosophy. Focusing on the neo-Kantian philosopher Bruno Bauch, the essay reflects on the role of idealist philosophy in introducing an epistemology of race and racial value. Examining Bauch's explicitly secular and scientific idiom, the essay attempts to interrogate the relationship between secularization in modern German…
Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism
Revealing What’s Implicit
This article reinterprets Maimonides’ theory of creation and revelation by focusing upon the relationship between belief in creation and the affirmation of miracle and law described in Guide II:25. Focusing upon Maimonides’ use of inference to describe creation and revelation, I re-evaluate Maimonides’ account as an instance of inferential reasoning. That is, Maimonides makes use of, rather than proves, the implicit norms of creation and revelati…
God is the Reason
This article presents Hermann Cohen's Ethical Monotheism as an epistemological rejoinder to the theologico‐political predicament of liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany (1871‐1918). Beginning with an intellectual historical portrait of liberal Protestantism as a diffuse cultural context rather than a defined ideology, the article then proceeds to explicate Cohen's “liberal” Jewish conception of an epistemological “God‐idea” as a defense against the a…
Wissen und Lomdus
The study of Judaism within the modern university would not be possible without the legacy as well as the methodological approach of the small group of young scholars and students in Berlin who founded the Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in 1819. Although outside the walls of the German university, these scholars endeavored to make inroads within the discipline of Orientalistik while standing firm in their hope that the Hegelian spir…
Law, Principle, and the Theologico-Political History of Sovereignty
This article takes it cue from the debate between Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson regarding the possibility of political theology within Christianity, and in response, offers a conceptual-historical portrait of sovereignty and its juridical dimensions. Beginning with the introduction of Roman law into the medieval Church, the article traces the logic of “legal principle” as the basis of sovereign decision and how the form of legal distinctions ado…
Law, Principle, and the Theologico-Political History of Sovereignty
This article takes it cue from the debate between Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson regarding the possibility of political theology within Christianity, and in response, offers a conceptual-historical portrait of sovereignty and its juridical dimensions. Beginning with the introduction of Roman law into the medieval Church, the article traces the logic of “legal principle” as the basis of sovereign decision and how the form of legal distinctions ado…
Law, Principle, and the Theologico-Political History of Sovereignty
This article takes it cue from the debate between Carl Schmitt and Erik Peterson regarding the possibility of political theology within Christianity, and in response, offers a conceptual-historical portrait of sovereignty and its juridical dimensions. Beginning with the introduction of Roman law into the medieval Church, the article traces the logic of “legal principle” as the basis of sovereign decision and how the form of legal distinctions ado…
God is the Reason
This article presents Hermann Cohen's Ethical Monotheism as an epistemological rejoinder to the theologico‐political predicament of liberalism in Wilhelmine Germany (1871‐1918). Beginning with an intellectual historical portrait of liberal Protestantism as a diffuse cultural context rather than a defined ideology, the article then proceeds to explicate Cohen's “liberal” Jewish conception of an epistemological “God‐idea” as a defense against the a…
Wissen und Lomdus
The study of Judaism within the modern university would not be possible without the legacy as well as the methodological approach of the small group of young scholars and students in Berlin who founded the Verein für Cultur und Wissenschaft der Juden in 1819. Although outside the walls of the German university, these scholars endeavored to make inroads within the discipline of Orientalistik while standing firm in their hope that the Hegelian spir…
Revealing What’s Implicit
This article reinterprets Maimonides’ theory of creation and revelation by focusing upon the relationship between belief in creation and the affirmation of miracle and law described in Guide II:25. Focusing upon Maimonides’ use of inference to describe creation and revelation, I re-evaluate Maimonides’ account as an instance of inferential reasoning. That is, Maimonides makes use of, rather than proves, the implicit norms of creation and revelati…
Hermann Cohen and the Crisis of Liberalism
"Foreign Spirits in the "Nation of Kant
This essay suggests that a distinctive shift toward racializing antisemitism can be traced in early twentieth-century German philosophy. Focusing on the neo-Kantian philosopher Bruno Bauch, the essay reflects on the role of idealist philosophy in introducing an epistemology of race and racial value. Examining Bauch's explicitly secular and scientific idiom, the essay attempts to interrogate the relationship between secularization in modern German…
Ghosted
In this article, I introduce affect as a theoretical paradigm for describing and understanding the logic of racialization by focusing on the late nineteenth and early twentieth century discourses of religion, Orientalism, and civic equality, and the specific case of Jewish racialization. Describing racialization primarily in affective terms, I focus on the case of Jewish “racial affect”—the unseen circulation of feelings about Jews, about what Je…
“Three Generations Are All That Exist in Any Moment in Time”
This essay engages the kabbalistic thought of R. Shlomo Elyashiv on the question of generational descent and ascension, arguing that he offers a kabbalistic rendering of generational ascent that counters the traditional notion of generational descent. The essay then compares his view with that of Rav Kook
Philosophy (7 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (6 works) · Theology (6 works) · Law (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Epistemology (4 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Politics (4 works) · Religious studies (4 works) · History (3 works)