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Beyond Theory

Eighteenth-century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony

By: Benjamin Bennett

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Beyond Theory

Eighteenth-century German Literature and the Poetics of Irony

By: Benjamin Bennett

Bennett perceives that many of the questions posed by eighteenth-century discourse - such as the difference between thought and language, the nature of the social, or the origin of the individual in the communal - remain current for us today. Beyond Theory is sure to provoke thought and stimulate debate among Germanists, comparatists, literary theorists, and others interested in the cultural history of eighteenth-century Europe.

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Cornell University Press

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0801428416

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9780801428418

Enlightenment and Community

By: Benjamin W. Redekop

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Enlightenment and Community

By: Benjamin W. Redekop

In an age when it has become fashionable to dismiss the Enlightenment as a sinister movement based on instrumental rationality, Benjamin Redekop delves deeper to understand the movement on its own terms. In Enlightenment and Community he shows that the E

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McGill-Queen's Press - MQUP

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0773510265

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9780773510265

Joseph

By: Benjamin T. Hoak

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Joseph

By: Benjamin T. Hoak

The account of Joseph, son of the Old Testament patriarch Jacob, is compelling because of the enduring themes of integrity, forgiveness, and faith that echo through the dramatic highs and lows of Joseph's life. Betrayed by his brothers, sold into slavery, falsely imprisoned, and then miraculously elevated to a position of wealth and power over all the land of Egypt-Joseph knew what it was to look deep into the darkest hour of the soul and still have hope. In doing so, he preserved the life of the infant nation of Israel and left a legacy of righteousness that resounds through three major world religions.

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Simon and Schuster

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1681461145

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9781681461144

The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book

By: Scott Hahn,Benjamin Wiker

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The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book

By: Scott Hahn,Benjamin Wiker

What is wrong with Scripture scholarship today? Why is it that the last place one should go to study the Bible is a biblical studies program at virtually any university? Why are so many faithful priests and pastors, and the people in their pews, unaware of the centuries-long effort to turn the sacred Word of God into just another secular text? In The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book, authors Scott Hahn and Benjamin Wiker trace the various malformations of Scripture scholarship that have led to a devastating loss of trust in the inspired Word of God. From the Reformation to the Enlightenment and beyond, Hahn and Wiker sketch the revolutions and radical figures that led to the emergence of the historical-critical method and the pervasive ill effects that are still being felt today.

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210

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Emmaus Road Publishing

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164585101X

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9781645851011

Shaping a Modern Ethics

The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism

By: Benjamin Bennett

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Shaping a Modern Ethics

The Humanist Legacy from Nietzsche to Feminism

By: Benjamin Bennett

Is there any such thing as a single ethical system to which all human beings could conceivably subscribe? The short answer is no; and most people, being tolerant, would probably agree with this answer. Yet most people, precisely in being tolerant, also subscribe to an idea of “human rights” which presupposes just such a universal ethics. This basic question of ethics is similarly treacherous when approached on a higher technical level. Specialists have long recognized that Kant's categorical imperative is neither theoretically nor practically tenable. But efforts to revive and repair the Kantian project-including especially the monumental work of Jürgen Habermas-have all themselves been theoretically questionable, while developing a complexity that makes them impractical. Must we then simply do without ethics in the sense of a universal ethical method? By way of a close study of literary and philosophical texts, from Freud to Machiavelli, Benjamin Bennett shows why the failure of a universal or propositional ethics is indeed unavoidable. He uncovers a modern non-propositional ethics that cannot be grasped in a single theoretical move but can only be approached as a collection of instances of a modern ethical “we”, three key examples of which Bennett explores in this book: - The “we” of irony, whose speakers share a strictly preter-verbal knowledge which is concealed in their actual utterances - The insistent exclusive “we” of a group that has neither its own physical locality nor even a clear intellectual identity, comparable to the “we” of Jews in the diaspora - The “we” of feminism, a separate “we” from that embracing people who happen to have been born women.

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217

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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1350122866

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9781350122864

God Interrupted

Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars

By: Benjamin Lazier

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God Interrupted

Heresy and the European Imagination between the World Wars

By: Benjamin Lazier

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 disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era. God Interrupted also provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars. Hans Jonas developed a philosophy of biology that inspired European Greens and bioethicists the world over. Leo Strauss became one of the most important and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion, radically recast what it means to be a Jew. Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art. They alert us to the abiding salience of the divine to Europeans between the wars and beyond--even among those for whom God was long missing or dead.

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Princeton University Press

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0691155410

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Schelling and Spinoza

Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute

By: Benjamin Norris

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Schelling and Spinoza

Realism, Idealism, and the Absolute

By: Benjamin Norris

Schelling and Spinoza reconstructs Schelling's reading of Spinoza's metaphysics to better understand the roles realism and idealism play in Schelling's work. Schelling initially praises Spinoza's monism but comes to criticize the lifelessness produced by Spinoza's dualistic account of the relation between thought and existence. By turning to Schelling's notion of the Absolute, author Benjamin Norris presents a novel reading of Schelling's early and middle philosophical endeavors as a kind of ideal-realism dependent on the hyphen that marks both the identity and the non-identity of realism and idealism. Through close analysis of Schelling's work, he convincingly argues that any contemporary return to Schelling must grapple with his critique of Spinoza. This critique calls into question the categories of immanence and transcendence that orient the current debate surrounding realism, antirealism, and idealism. Schelling and Spinoza is an important contribution to our understanding of both Schelling and Spinoza, as well as the viability of the frightening claim that only one thing truly exists.

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State University of New York Press

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1438489544

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Selected Writings: 1935-1938

By: Walter Benjamin,Howard Eiland,Gary Smith

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Selected Writings: 1935-1938

By: Walter Benjamin,Howard Eiland,Gary Smith

Comprising more than 65 pieces - journal articles, reviews, extended essays, sketches, aphorisms, and fragments - this volume shows the range of Walter Benjamin's writing. His topics here include poetry, fiction, drama, history, religion, love, violence, morality and mythology.

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480

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Harvard University Press

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0674008960

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9780674008960

Jacob

By: Benjamin T. Hoak

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Jacob

By: Benjamin T. Hoak

Struggle is a constant theme of Jacob's life, but he survives and learns to live according to the promises God has given to him. As Jacob learns to channel his energies toward what God wants for him rather than what he wants for himself, God blesses him in an earthly manner. Jacob becomes wealthy beyond the dreams of most people, with flocks and herds beyond measure. But Jacob's story is not just about one man; it is also about his children and their descendants, who produce a great nation called Israel.

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184

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Simon and Schuster

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1681461129

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Book's by Benjamin Lessing

Beyond Theory

Beyond Theory

Enlightenment and Community

Enlightenment and Community

Joseph

Joseph

The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book

The Decline and Fall of Sacred Scripture: How the Bible Became a Secular Book

Shaping a Modern Ethics

Shaping a Modern Ethics

God Interrupted

God Interrupted

Schelling and Spinoza

Schelling and Spinoza

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Selected Writings: 1935-1938

Jacob

Jacob

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