Jane Platt: Subscribing to Faith? The Anglican Parish Magazine 1859–1929. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan, 2015; pp. xi + 278.
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April DeConick and Grant Adamson, eds.: Histories of the Hidden God: Concealment and Revelation in Western Gnostic, Esoteric and Mystical Traditions. Durham: Acumen, 2013; pp. x + 358.
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David M. Divalerio: The Holy Madmen of Tibet. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2015; pp. ix + 346.
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Von Rissen und Brüchen
Nach ihrem Einzug als drittstärkste Fraktion in den Bundestag hat die »Alternative für Deutschland« im Dezember ihren Bundesparteitag in Hannover durchgeführt. Statt der viel beschworenen Einheit gab es Strömungskonflikte, Machtkämpfe und Hinterzimmergespräche
Der Beitrag Von Rissen und Brüchen erschien zuerst auf der rechte rand.
DOES ANYBODY STILL NEED JUDAISM?
Both of the books under review focus on the tradition of Jewish scholarship and debate. The Genius of Judaism is written from a religious perspective, whereas the authors of Jews and Words envision a future in which Jews live without Judaism; they see Jewishness as a culture that can be divorced from religion. For Lévy, a sense of the divine—including the concept of being a chosen people—is the source of Jewish identity and historical continuity. Lévy also argues that the Jews are chosen to serve non-Jews. Inspired by the prophet Jonah, Lévy undertook diplomatic missions in the Ukraine and in Libya, and I consider the lessons he draws from these missions. I also discuss the relationship of Judaism to various concepts in the philosophy of history: revolution, progress, messianism, and utopianism, as well as the affinity between Judaism and skepticism.
TEXTS ON THE MOVE: TEXTUALITY AND HISTORICITY REVISITED
The last time texts were brought onto the general theoretical and methodological agenda of the human and social sciences, they were reintroduced into history in terms of an indefinite set of indefinitely complex contexts, which gave every text a specific date and location in a network of other texts and events. A couple of decades later, however, a more prominent feature of texts seems to be that they are permanently on the move: they circulate, have effects on other things, change and transform realities, and are at the same time themselves translated and modified. In the literature exploring the textuality of history, these dimensions have been under-theorized and often ignored. To meet this challenge, we need to develop concepts and approaches that enable us to place the mobility of texts as well as their mobilizing force at the center of our current historical concerns. In this article we will explore what the consequences of this move could be, and what resources are already at hand in different scholarly traditions. Exploring the entanglements between actor-network theory (ANT in the version of Bruno Latour), on the one hand, and literary criticism, linguistics, and book history, on the other, enables us to focus on how texts move and how they move others. We will proceed in this essay by identifying three decisive moments in twentieth- and twenty-first-century textual scholarship, often conceptualized as “turns,” which are linked to the works of three path-breaking authors and which at the same time represent three different stages or forms of textuality: the linguistic turn (Saussure), the turn to writing (Derrida), and the turn to print (Eisenstein). Our discussions of these three moments and forms of textuality aim at uncovering how they also represent seminal moments in Bruno Latour’s development of the theoretical and methodological complex now referred to as ANT.
ANTHROPOCENE TIME
Beginning with the question of how a sense of geological time remains strangely withdrawn in contemporary discussions of the Anthropocene in the human sciences and yields place to the more human-centered time of world history, this article proceeds to discuss the differences between human-historical time and the time of geology as they relate to the concept of the Anthropocene. The article discusses the difficulty of developing a mode of thinking about the present that would attempt to hold together these two rather different senses of time and ends with a ground-clearing exercise that might enable the development of such thought.