Rochelle Tobias
Biographic Data
| ID | 5778832 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Rochelle Tobias |
| GIVEN NAMES | Rochelle |
| FAMILY NAME | Tobias |
| SIGNATURE | TOBIAS R |
| AFFILIATIONS | Johns Hopkins University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 10 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 1 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 10 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1999 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Community with Nothing in Common
In his treatise "On Detachment," Meister Eckhart underscores that the detached soul has the power to compel God. This article draws on Eckhart's concept of detachment to explore the gravitational pull that Melville's Bartleby exerts on both the narrator and the other characters in his law practice. In abstaining from the "common usage" of the practice and in abandoning "common sense," Bartleby brings to the fore another ground for communal living…
Celan’s Punctum
(Buck, Theo, Paul Celan (1920–1970). Ein jüdischer Dichter deutscher Sprache aus der Bukowina. Die Biographie , 2020. - Redfield, Marc, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan , 2021. - Levine, Michael G., Atomzertrümmerung. Zu einem Gedicht von Paul Celan , 2018. - Bogumil-Notz, Sieghild, Paul Celan. Die fortschreitende Erschließung der Wirklichkeit beim Schreiben , 2020. - Eskin, Michael, Karen Leeder and Marko Pajević, eds., Paul Celan Today: A Com…
Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930
Investigates the contested legacies of British colonisation on Canada's Atlantic coastEngages with the legacy of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada across three sectionsSituates the Scottish experience within process of British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this regionExposes the reader to a range of experiences from across the four Atlantic Provinces, which…
From Mythology to Myth
From Mythology to Myth:The Courage of Poetry Rochelle Tobias Among the themes that preoccupied Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, especially in his later writings, was the relation of mythology to what he sometimes called the mythical, which turned out to be a difficult term to define. Mythology, by contrast, posed no such obstacle given its enthusiastic if short-lived embrace by Martin Heidegger. In the "Prologue" to his collection of lectures Heidegger …
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Julia Ng (bio) and Rochelle Tobias (bio) The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem has long been a subject of scholarly interest, but in recent years critical attention has turned to the influence of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen on Benjamin's and Scholem's approach to religion, history, epistemology, and ethics. As a founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Cohen represente…
Irreconcilable
Irreconcilable:Ethics and Aesthetics for Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin Rochelle Tobias (bio) Over the past thirty years Benjamin scholarship has convincingly shown the importance of Judaism for Benjamin's thought from the early writings on language to the later reflections on history, modernity, and urban life. The same strain is evident in Benjamin's critique of metaphysics, as exemplified in the Christian notion of grace. Benjamin dismisses…
The Letter and the Law
The Letter and the Law:A Brief Introduction Rochelle Tobias (bio) When Moses Mendelssohn published Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism in 1783, he believed he had resolved, once and for all, the problem of ecclesiastical and civil law that had plagued modern theories of the state from Hobbes onward. Religion, as he defined it, was a matter of personal conviction that could be neither compelled nor punished by the state. Civil law, by con…
The Double Fiction in Robert Walser's
A Doctor's Odyssey
The Ground Gives Way
The Ground Gives Way: Intimations of the Sacred in Celan’s “Gespräch im Gebirg” Rochelle Tobias Two men go up into a mountain. Why? They don’t know. Something draws them there. What? They don’t really know that either. It could be the wish to talk, to talk with “mouth and tongue.” But talking doesn’t seem to bring them anywhere. What draws them there doesn’t draw them out. The two men talk back and forth, exchanging phrases, swapping lines, as if…
The Ground Gives Way
The Ground Gives Way: Intimations of the Sacred in Celan’s “Gespräch im Gebirg” Rochelle Tobias Two men go up into a mountain. Why? They don’t know. Something draws them there. What? They don’t really know that either. It could be the wish to talk, to talk with “mouth and tongue.” But talking doesn’t seem to bring them anywhere. What draws them there doesn’t draw them out. The two men talk back and forth, exchanging phrases, swapping lines, as if…
The Ground Gives Way
The Ground Gives Way: Intimations of the Sacred in Celan’s “Gespräch im Gebirg” Rochelle Tobias Two men go up into a mountain. Why? They don’t know. Something draws them there. What? They don’t really know that either. It could be the wish to talk, to talk with “mouth and tongue.” But talking doesn’t seem to bring them anywhere. What draws them there doesn’t draw them out. The two men talk back and forth, exchanging phrases, swapping lines, as if…
A Doctor's Odyssey
The Double Fiction in Robert Walser's
The Letter and the Law
The Letter and the Law:A Brief Introduction Rochelle Tobias (bio) When Moses Mendelssohn published Jerusalem, or On Religious Power and Judaism in 1783, he believed he had resolved, once and for all, the problem of ecclesiastical and civil law that had plagued modern theories of the state from Hobbes onward. Religion, as he defined it, was a matter of personal conviction that could be neither compelled nor punished by the state. Civil law, by con…
Introduction to the Special Issue
Introduction to the Special Issue Julia Ng (bio) and Rochelle Tobias (bio) The friendship between Walter Benjamin and Gershom Scholem has long been a subject of scholarly interest, but in recent years critical attention has turned to the influence of the German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen on Benjamin's and Scholem's approach to religion, history, epistemology, and ethics. As a founder of the Marburg school of neo-Kantianism, Cohen represente…
Irreconcilable
Irreconcilable:Ethics and Aesthetics for Hermann Cohen and Walter Benjamin Rochelle Tobias (bio) Over the past thirty years Benjamin scholarship has convincingly shown the importance of Judaism for Benjamin's thought from the early writings on language to the later reflections on history, modernity, and urban life. The same strain is evident in Benjamin's critique of metaphysics, as exemplified in the Christian notion of grace. Benjamin dismisses…
From Mythology to Myth
From Mythology to Myth:The Courage of Poetry Rochelle Tobias Among the themes that preoccupied Philippe Lacoue-Labarthe, especially in his later writings, was the relation of mythology to what he sometimes called the mythical, which turned out to be a difficult term to define. Mythology, by contrast, posed no such obstacle given its enthusiastic if short-lived embrace by Martin Heidegger. In the "Prologue" to his collection of lectures Heidegger …
Reappraisals of British Colonisation in Atlantic Canada, 1700-1930
Investigates the contested legacies of British colonisation on Canada's Atlantic coastEngages with the legacy of British colonisation in Atlantic Canada across three sectionsSituates the Scottish experience within process of British colonisation, challenging the tendency to omit the Scots from critical explorations of the colonisation process in this regionExposes the reader to a range of experiences from across the four Atlantic Provinces, which…
Celan’s Punctum
(Buck, Theo, Paul Celan (1920–1970). Ein jüdischer Dichter deutscher Sprache aus der Bukowina. Die Biographie , 2020. - Redfield, Marc, Shibboleth: Judges, Derrida, Celan , 2021. - Levine, Michael G., Atomzertrümmerung. Zu einem Gedicht von Paul Celan , 2018. - Bogumil-Notz, Sieghild, Paul Celan. Die fortschreitende Erschließung der Wirklichkeit beim Schreiben , 2020. - Eskin, Michael, Karen Leeder and Marko Pajević, eds., Paul Celan Today: A Com…
The Community with Nothing in Common
In his treatise "On Detachment," Meister Eckhart underscores that the detached soul has the power to compel God. This article draws on Eckhart's concept of detachment to explore the gravitational pull that Melville's Bartleby exerts on both the narrator and the other characters in his law practice. In abstaining from the "common usage" of the practice and in abandoning "common sense," Bartleby brings to the fore another ground for communal living…
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