Benjamin Lazier
Biographic Data
| ID | 977489 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Benjamin Lazier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Benjamin |
| FAMILY NAME | Lazier |
| SIGNATURE | LAZIER B |
| AFFILIATIONS | Reed College |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 11 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 11 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2002 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2011 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Earthrise; or, The Globalization of the World Picture
IN 1990, THE GERMAN ASTRONOMERS Freimut Bo ̈rngen and Lutz Schmadel named an asteroid after one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the German Jewish e ́migre ́Hannah Arendt. 1 Whether Arendt would have appreciated the gesture is uncertain. 2After all, she opened her philosophical masterpiece The Human Condition (1958) by voicing grave concerns about a second satellite-Sputnik.In 1957, man had for the first time prope…
God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and di…
Introduction: The Phobic Regimes of Modernity
Research Article| May 01 2010 Introduction: The Phobic Regimes of Modernity Jan Plamper, Jan Plamper Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Benjamin Lazier Benjamin Lazier Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2010) 110 (1): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2010.110.1.58 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory – By Raphael Gross
Memoirs – By Hans Jonas
Natural Right and Liberalism: Leo Strauss in Our Time
Not long ago, the actor and playwright Tim Robbins directed a production in New York and Los Angeles called Embedded . The play is strange, but nowhere more so than in one, infamous scene: a black mass in honor of the deceased political philosopher Leo Strauss, conducted by candlelight by advisers to President Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war. Characters who are transparent representations of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wo…
The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions – By Christian Wiese
"On the Origins of "Political Theology: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars
This essay traces the origins of the contemporary interest in “political theology” and focuses on the work of Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Jacob Taubes in particular. They offer three competing instrumentalizations of the concept; they alert us to a dimension of the problem thus far unrecognized, namely, how the problem of heresy figures at its core; they help us recall the interwar origins of the contemporary fascination with the term, the …
Leo Strauss and the Theologico‐Political Problem – By Heinrich Meier
Overcoming Gnosticism: Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Legitimacy of the Natural World
In 1984, about a decade before his own murder, the Romanian scholar of religion Ioan Culianu complained of a more widespread, if decidedly less grisly form of assault. 1 The gnostics, he declared in a moment of high jocularity, had "taken hold of the whole world, and we were not aware of it. It is a mixed feeling of anxiety and admiration, since I cannot refrain myself from thinking that these alien body-snatchers have done a remarkable job indee…
Writing the Judenzarathustra: Gershom Scholem's Response to Modernity, 1913-1917
Who among us young Jews, asked an adolescent Gerhard has not seen himself as Jesus and the Messiah of the oppressed?2 This rhetorical apologia prefaces what in Scholem's recently published diaries must count as its most highly charged passage, an autobiography of sorts, in which Scholem fancies himself the chosen one, der Auserwdhlte, the expected one, der Erwartete, and in a play on his Hebraic surname, dubs himself Scholem, der Vollkommene, the…
Overcoming Gnosticism: Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Legitimacy of the Natural World
In 1984, about a decade before his own murder, the Romanian scholar of religion Ioan Culianu complained of a more widespread, if decidedly less grisly form of assault. 1 The gnostics, he declared in a moment of high jocularity, had "taken hold of the whole world, and we were not aware of it. It is a mixed feeling of anxiety and admiration, since I cannot refrain myself from thinking that these alien body-snatchers have done a remarkable job indee…
"On the Origins of "Political Theology: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars
This essay traces the origins of the contemporary interest in “political theology” and focuses on the work of Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Jacob Taubes in particular. They offer three competing instrumentalizations of the concept; they alert us to a dimension of the problem thus far unrecognized, namely, how the problem of heresy figures at its core; they help us recall the interwar origins of the contemporary fascination with the term, the …
Writing the Judenzarathustra: Gershom Scholem's Response to Modernity, 1913-1917
Who among us young Jews, asked an adolescent Gerhard has not seen himself as Jesus and the Messiah of the oppressed?2 This rhetorical apologia prefaces what in Scholem's recently published diaries must count as its most highly charged passage, an autobiography of sorts, in which Scholem fancies himself the chosen one, der Auserwdhlte, the expected one, der Erwartete, and in a play on his Hebraic surname, dubs himself Scholem, der Vollkommene, the…
Overcoming Gnosticism: Hans Jonas, Hans Blumenberg, and the Legitimacy of the Natural World
In 1984, about a decade before his own murder, the Romanian scholar of religion Ioan Culianu complained of a more widespread, if decidedly less grisly form of assault. 1 The gnostics, he declared in a moment of high jocularity, had "taken hold of the whole world, and we were not aware of it. It is a mixed feeling of anxiety and admiration, since I cannot refrain myself from thinking that these alien body-snatchers have done a remarkable job indee…
Leo Strauss and the Theologico‐Political Problem – By Heinrich Meier
The Life and Thought of Hans Jonas: Jewish Dimensions – By Christian Wiese
"On the Origins of "Political Theology: Judaism and Heresy between the World Wars
This essay traces the origins of the contemporary interest in “political theology” and focuses on the work of Leo Strauss, Gershom Scholem, and Jacob Taubes in particular. They offer three competing instrumentalizations of the concept; they alert us to a dimension of the problem thus far unrecognized, namely, how the problem of heresy figures at its core; they help us recall the interwar origins of the contemporary fascination with the term, the …
Carl Schmitt and the Jews: The “Jewish Question,” the Holocaust, and German Legal Theory – By Raphael Gross
Memoirs – By Hans Jonas
Natural Right and Liberalism: Leo Strauss in Our Time
Not long ago, the actor and playwright Tim Robbins directed a production in New York and Los Angeles called Embedded . The play is strange, but nowhere more so than in one, infamous scene: a black mass in honor of the deceased political philosopher Leo Strauss, conducted by candlelight by advisers to President Bush in the run-up to the Iraq war. Characters who are transparent representations of Dick Cheney, Donald Rumsfeld, Richard Perle, Paul Wo…
God Interrupted: Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars
Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and di…
Introduction: The Phobic Regimes of Modernity
Research Article| May 01 2010 Introduction: The Phobic Regimes of Modernity Jan Plamper, Jan Plamper Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Benjamin Lazier Benjamin Lazier Search for other works by this author on: This Site PubMed Google Scholar Representations (2010) 110 (1): 58–65. https://doi.org/10.1525/rep.2010.110.1.58 Views Icon Views Article contents Figures & tables Video Audio Supplementary Data Peer R…
Earthrise; or, The Globalization of the World Picture
IN 1990, THE GERMAN ASTRONOMERS Freimut Bo ̈rngen and Lutz Schmadel named an asteroid after one of the foremost political philosophers of the twentieth century, the German Jewish e ́migre ́Hannah Arendt. 1 Whether Arendt would have appreciated the gesture is uncertain. 2After all, she opened her philosophical masterpiece The Human Condition (1958) by voicing grave concerns about a second satellite-Sputnik.In 1957, man had for the first time prope…
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