Jeffrey A Bernstein
Biographic Data
| ID | 489279 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jeffrey A Bernstein |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jeffrey A |
| FAMILY NAME | Bernstein |
| SIGNATURE | BERNSTEIN J A |
| AFFILIATIONS | College of the Holy Cross |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-4413-0555 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 13 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 13 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2022 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
Professor of Apocalypse
Journal Article Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes. By Jerry Z. Muller Get access Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes By Jerry Z. Muller Princeton University Press, 2022. 637 + viii pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Jeffrey A Bernstein Jeffrey A Bernstein College of the Holy Cross [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Rel…
Dark Ground and Unconscious in Schelling and Freud
This review-essay explores the subtle and crucial relation between Schelling’s thinking of the dark ground and Freud’s construal of the unconscious in Teresa Fenichel’s provocative new work
The Problem of Our Law
A writer once summed the matter up in this way: The sole visible and indubitable law that is imposed upon us is the nobility, and must we ourselves deprive ourselves of that one law?—Franz Kafka, “The Problem of Our Laws”1The great grinding wheels of the State were getting to grips with the citizen Andreas Pum, and, before he even realized it, he was being slowly and comprehensively crushed.—Joseph Roth, Rebellion2
Recovering Judaism from Religion and Modernity
Recovering Judaism from Religion and Modernity Jeffrey A. Bernstein Leora Batnitzky. How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. x 211. Sharon Portnoff. Reason and Revelation before Historicism: Strauss and Fackenheim. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. ix 395. The reason why it makes sense to review such seemingly disparate books together (one is a h…
A Note on a Digression on Arendt in Waller Newell's Tyranny
This note explores Newell's instructive digression, in his Tyranny, about Hannah Arendt's reading of Aristotle (in The Human Condition). I supplement his account of Arendt as collapsing the theory/practice distinction as a result of her indebtedness to Heidegger
Jean Améry, Commemoration and Comparative Engagement
2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Jean Améry’s collection of essays dealing with his experiences at (and in the aftermath of) Auschwitz entitled Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne: Bewältigungsversuche eines Überwältigten. Translated into English as At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities, Améry’s collection immediately set a standard for philosophical accounts of the camps that even today …
Améry's Duress
If truth hurts, this is no doubt because it is often enough forced on us. And the question as to whether the reception of “nice,” “easy” truths is similarly an outcome of coercion negates itself in its very formulation—we do not ask “why are things the way they are?” from a feeling of comfort; the plaintiff cry of “how, then, shall we live?” does not come to us out of a sense of security. Indeed, insofar as truth overtakes us and interrupts the c…
Thoughts on Yoram Hazony'sThe Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
This article focuses on two claims in Yoram Hazony's book The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: (1) that Hebrew Scripture contains a philosophy and (2) that this philosophy renders the conventional distinction between Jerusalem and Athens untenable insofar as it is a distinction that falls outside the purview of Hebrew Scripture
The Theological-Political Problem in Leo Strauss’s Writings on Moses Mendelssohn
Ready When You Are
A Conversation with Claire Katz about her book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism
Political (De)Formation Ancient And Modern
The Weimar Moment
Is History New? Recent Modernist Interpretations of Hegel
This review explores a recent trend in commentary on Hegel’s philosophy of history which owes much of its interpretive substance to the aesthetic modernism of the Frankfurt School. This modernist trend emphasizes the interplay of form and content, material conditions of rationality, and the temporal disjunction between experiencing and cognizing history. In so doing, it produces a deeply political, psychoanalytic, and musical reading of Hegel.
Améry's Duress
If truth hurts, this is no doubt because it is often enough forced on us. And the question as to whether the reception of “nice,” “easy” truths is similarly an outcome of coercion negates itself in its very formulation—we do not ask “why are things the way they are?” from a feeling of comfort; the plaintiff cry of “how, then, shall we live?” does not come to us out of a sense of security. Indeed, insofar as truth overtakes us and interrupts the c…
Is History New? Recent Modernist Interpretations of Hegel
This review explores a recent trend in commentary on Hegel’s philosophy of history which owes much of its interpretive substance to the aesthetic modernism of the Frankfurt School. This modernist trend emphasizes the interplay of form and content, material conditions of rationality, and the temporal disjunction between experiencing and cognizing history. In so doing, it produces a deeply political, psychoanalytic, and musical reading of Hegel.
The Weimar Moment
The Theological-Political Problem in Leo Strauss’s Writings on Moses Mendelssohn
Ready When You Are
A Conversation with Claire Katz about her book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism
Political (De)Formation Ancient And Modern
Thoughts on Yoram Hazony'sThe Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture
This article focuses on two claims in Yoram Hazony's book The Philosophy of Hebrew Scripture: (1) that Hebrew Scripture contains a philosophy and (2) that this philosophy renders the conventional distinction between Jerusalem and Athens untenable insofar as it is a distinction that falls outside the purview of Hebrew Scripture
A Note on a Digression on Arendt in Waller Newell's Tyranny
This note explores Newell's instructive digression, in his Tyranny, about Hannah Arendt's reading of Aristotle (in The Human Condition). I supplement his account of Arendt as collapsing the theory/practice distinction as a result of her indebtedness to Heidegger
Jean Améry, Commemoration and Comparative Engagement
2016 marks the 50th Anniversary of the publication of Jean Améry’s collection of essays dealing with his experiences at (and in the aftermath of) Auschwitz entitled Jenseits von Schuld und Sühne: Bewältigungsversuche eines Überwältigten. Translated into English as At The Mind’s Limits: Contemplations By A Survivor On Auschwitz And Its Realities, Améry’s collection immediately set a standard for philosophical accounts of the camps that even today …
Améry's Duress
If truth hurts, this is no doubt because it is often enough forced on us. And the question as to whether the reception of “nice,” “easy” truths is similarly an outcome of coercion negates itself in its very formulation—we do not ask “why are things the way they are?” from a feeling of comfort; the plaintiff cry of “how, then, shall we live?” does not come to us out of a sense of security. Indeed, insofar as truth overtakes us and interrupts the c…
Recovering Judaism from Religion and Modernity
Recovering Judaism from Religion and Modernity Jeffrey A. Bernstein Leora Batnitzky. How Judaism Became a Religion: An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thought. Princeton, N.J.: Princeton University Press, 2011. Pp. x 211. Sharon Portnoff. Reason and Revelation before Historicism: Strauss and Fackenheim. Toronto: University of Toronto Press, 2011. Pp. ix 395. The reason why it makes sense to review such seemingly disparate books together (one is a h…
The Problem of Our Law
A writer once summed the matter up in this way: The sole visible and indubitable law that is imposed upon us is the nobility, and must we ourselves deprive ourselves of that one law?—Franz Kafka, “The Problem of Our Laws”1The great grinding wheels of the State were getting to grips with the citizen Andreas Pum, and, before he even realized it, he was being slowly and comprehensively crushed.—Joseph Roth, Rebellion2
Dark Ground and Unconscious in Schelling and Freud
This review-essay explores the subtle and crucial relation between Schelling’s thinking of the dark ground and Freud’s construal of the unconscious in Teresa Fenichel’s provocative new work
Professor of Apocalypse
Journal Article Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes. By Jerry Z. Muller Get access Professor of Apocalypse: The Many Lives of Jacob Taubes By Jerry Z. Muller Princeton University Press, 2022. 637 + viii pages. $39.95 (hardcover). Jeffrey A Bernstein Jeffrey A Bernstein College of the Holy Cross [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Journal of the American Academy of Rel…
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