Michael Mack
Biographic Data
| ID | 3858900 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Michael Mack |
| GIVEN NAMES | Michael |
| FAMILY NAME | Mack |
| SIGNATURE | MACK M |
| AFFILIATIONS | English, The Catholic University of America |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 29 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 28 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1994 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2025 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Sidney and Philosophy
In the Defence, Sidney satirises contemporary moral philosophy but shows great esteem for ancient philosophers, Plato and Aristotle in particular. Sidney argues that their doctrines, properly understood, support his own theory of poetic making. This chapter examines Sidney’s understanding of Plato and Aristotle and shows how it is shaped by classical intermediaries such as Cicero, Plutarch, and Renaissance interpreters including Pietro Bembo and …
Doing aesthetics with Arendt
In our economized culture, we need Hannah Arendt more than ever. Countering the economizing streamlining current in contemporary forms of line management, Arendt developed a philosophy of diversity
Contaminations
Introduces the figure of contamination as alternative to dialecticsListen to a podcast on Contaminations by the author.This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced cri…
Contaminations
This book enquires into the problem of various oppositions between pure entities such as nature and society, body and mind, science and the arts, subjectivity and objectivity. It examines how works of literature and cinema have contaminated constructions of the pure and the immune with their purported opposite. As an advanced critical introduction to the figure of contamination, the book makes explicit what so far has remained unarticulated-what …
States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel
The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt's Philosophical Critique of Philosophy
This essay both contributes to Hannah Arendt scholarship and attempts to understand the mentality of the perpetrators of the Nazi genocide. It does so by analyzing how Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem grew out of her effort to come to terms with the particular and unprecedented aspects of the Holocaust in light of her general political philosophy. Arendt avoids giving a straightforward reply as to why Adolf Eichmann and his fellow perpetrators acte…
Judaism and Enlightenment – Adam Sutcliffe
Jeffrey Andrew Barash. Politiques de l’histoire. L’ historicism comme premise et comme mythe
The Savage Science
This article analyzes how Freud takes issue with the prioritization of the present over and above the historical past. Significantly, Freud's understanding of history is closely related to his interest in Christianity's historical dependence on Jewish antiquity. He emphasizes the common sources of both religions: both are shaped by the experience of guilt. Christianity, however, relegates the historical past to the realm of the “old Adam.” Accord…
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarianand Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, whi…
Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity
Hess, Jonathan M. Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 258pp. $40.00 hardcover. In a letter from 1964 that has come to be called Against the Myth of the German-Jewish Dialogue, Gershom Scholem disavows any mutually productive dialogue between Jews and Germans in the modern era. Scholem, in an essay published the next year, goes on to clarify that such a dialogue would have implied Jews participating i…
German Idealism and the Jew
Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy . Jacob Golomb , Robert S. Wistrich
Franz Rosenzweig's and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of German Idealism's Pseudotheology
The End of Modernism. Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe
is you're a woman.You live for sensations
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
Freud's Other Enlightenment
I strongly believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tacit dichotomy the binary opposition that is frequently presupposed in these controversies: the dichotomy between being a Jew (and taking one's Jewish heritage seriously) and being an Aujkldrer (committed to the Enlightenment ideals of universal science and rational critique). Freud was both, and he was proud of being both. a Jew and an A uJkldrer2
The metaphysics of eating
This paper analyzes how ‘Jewishness’ functions as a scapegoat for the apparently unbridgeable gap between spirit and matter in Hegel’s social and aesthetic theory. If Hegel accuses ‘the Jews’ and ‘Judaism’ of inhabiting a radical divide between the empirical and the spiritual – a divide that coincides with the one between body and body politic – he follows the trajectory of Kant’s opposition between autonomy and heteronomy. Kant’s notion of freed…
Anthropology as Memory
Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers - including Derrida - have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of 'otherness', the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the 'need' for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, it …
Idolatry and Representation
Law, Charity and Taboo or Kant's Reversal of St. Paul's Spirit‐Letter Opposition and its Theological Implications
This article gives the first account of Kant's reversal of St. Paul's Spirit‐Letter opposition. By means of such reversal Kant defines both charity and law as obtaining a complete autonomy from ‘profane’ life. In Kant's interpretative framework Judaism and Jews represent the ‘profane’, whereas Christ symbolizes the complete transcendence of the empirical. I shall discuss how different Jewish writer – Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel and Franz Baerma…
The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A
Mark Haworth‐Booth, Photography: An Independent Art, photographs from the Vicroria & Albert Museum 1839–1996
Documentary Dilemmas
Moments in Time and Space
Gas Tanks
The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt's Philosophical Critique of Philosophy
This essay both contributes to Hannah Arendt scholarship and attempts to understand the mentality of the perpetrators of the Nazi genocide. It does so by analyzing how Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem grew out of her effort to come to terms with the particular and unprecedented aspects of the Holocaust in light of her general political philosophy. Arendt avoids giving a straightforward reply as to why Adolf Eichmann and his fellow perpetrators acte…
Anthropology as Memory
Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers - including Derrida - have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of 'otherness', the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the 'need' for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, it …
Documentary Dilemmas
Moments in Time and Space
Gas Tanks
Significant images
All Human Life
Who's Looking at the Family
Hotel Room With a View
The Canon Photography Gallery at the V&A
Mark Haworth‐Booth, Photography: An Independent Art, photographs from the Vicroria & Albert Museum 1839–1996
Law, Charity and Taboo or Kant's Reversal of St. Paul's Spirit‐Letter Opposition and its Theological Implications
This article gives the first account of Kant's reversal of St. Paul's Spirit‐Letter opposition. By means of such reversal Kant defines both charity and law as obtaining a complete autonomy from ‘profane’ life. In Kant's interpretative framework Judaism and Jews represent the ‘profane’, whereas Christ symbolizes the complete transcendence of the empirical. I shall discuss how different Jewish writer – Walter Benjamin, Georg Simmel and Franz Baerma…
The metaphysics of eating
This paper analyzes how ‘Jewishness’ functions as a scapegoat for the apparently unbridgeable gap between spirit and matter in Hegel’s social and aesthetic theory. If Hegel accuses ‘the Jews’ and ‘Judaism’ of inhabiting a radical divide between the empirical and the spiritual – a divide that coincides with the one between body and body politic – he follows the trajectory of Kant’s opposition between autonomy and heteronomy. Kant’s notion of freed…
Anthropology as Memory
Whereas many other post-Holocaust Jewish thinkers - including Derrida - have concentrated on a refusal of totality and celebration of 'otherness', the poet and intellectual Franz Baermann Steiner (1909-1952) combines this emphasis with an equal stress on the 'need' for certain collectively acknowledged limits. Next to the wider significance of this book for discussions of Holocaust studies in relation to current theoretical and social issues, it …
Idolatry and Representation
The End of Modernism. Elias Canetti's Auto-da-Fe
is you're a woman.You live for sensations
On the Psychotheology of Everyday Life
Freud's Other Enlightenment
I strongly believe that there is something fundamentally wrong with the tacit dichotomy the binary opposition that is frequently presupposed in these controversies: the dichotomy between being a Jew (and taking one's Jewish heritage seriously) and being an Aujkldrer (committed to the Enlightenment ideals of universal science and rational critique). Freud was both, and he was proud of being both. a Jew and an A uJkldrer2
German Idealism and the Jew
Nietzsche, Godfather of Fascism? On the Uses and Abuses of a Philosophy . Jacob Golomb , Robert S. Wistrich
Franz Rosenzweig's and Emmanuel Levinas's Critique of German Idealism's Pseudotheology
A Companion to the Works of Elias Canetti
New essays providing a comprehensive scholarly introduction to the great writer and thinker Canetti. The Bulgarian-born scholar and author Elias Canetti was one of the most astute witnesses and analysts of the mass movements and wars of the first half of the 20th century. Born a Sephardic Jew and raised at first in the Bulgarianand Ladino languages, he chose to write in German. He was awarded the 1981 Nobel Prize in Literature for his oeuvre, whi…
Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity
Hess, Jonathan M. Germans, Jews and the Claims of Modernity. New Haven: Yale University Press, 2002. 258pp. $40.00 hardcover. In a letter from 1964 that has come to be called Against the Myth of the German-Jewish Dialogue, Gershom Scholem disavows any mutually productive dialogue between Jews and Germans in the modern era. Scholem, in an essay published the next year, goes on to clarify that such a dialogue would have implied Jews participating i…
Jeffrey Andrew Barash. Politiques de l’histoire. L’ historicism comme premise et comme mythe
The Savage Science
This article analyzes how Freud takes issue with the prioritization of the present over and above the historical past. Significantly, Freud's understanding of history is closely related to his interest in Christianity's historical dependence on Jewish antiquity. He emphasizes the common sources of both religions: both are shaped by the experience of guilt. Christianity, however, relegates the historical past to the realm of the “old Adam.” Accord…
Judaism and Enlightenment – Adam Sutcliffe
The Holocaust and Hannah Arendt's Philosophical Critique of Philosophy
This essay both contributes to Hannah Arendt scholarship and attempts to understand the mentality of the perpetrators of the Nazi genocide. It does so by analyzing how Arendt's Eichmann in Jerusalem grew out of her effort to come to terms with the particular and unprecedented aspects of the Holocaust in light of her general political philosophy. Arendt avoids giving a straightforward reply as to why Adolf Eichmann and his fellow perpetrators acte…
States of Exception in the Contemporary Novel
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