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At a time when rapidly evolving technologies, political turmoil,
and the tensions inherent in multiculturalism and globalization are
reshaping historical consciousness, what is the proper role for
historians and their work? By way of an answer, the contributors to
this volume offer up an illuminating collective meditation on the
idea of ethos and its relevance for historical practice. These
intellectually adventurous essays demonstrate how ethos-a term
evoking a society's "fundamental character" as well as an ethical
appeal to knowledge and commitment-can serve as a conceptual
lodestar for history today, not only as a narrative, but as a form
of consciousness and an ethical-political orientation.
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men
and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these
very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the
violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in
equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a
provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne
Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian
arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of
Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers,
and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual
motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary
radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
For millennia, messianic visions of redemption have inspired men
and women to turn against unjust and oppressive orders. Yet these
very same traditions are regularly decried as antecedents to the
violent and authoritarian ideologies of modernity. Informed in
equal parts by theology and historical theory, this book offers a
provocative exploration of this double-edged legacy. Author Jayne
Svenungsson rigorously pursues a middle path between utopian
arrogance and an enervated postmodernism, assessing the impact of
Jewish and Christian theologies of history on subsequent thinkers,
and in the process identifying a web of spiritual and intellectual
motifs extending from ancient Jewish prophets to contemporary
radicals such as Giorgio Agamben and Slavoj Zizek.
This book probes the relationship between Martin Heidegger and
theology in light of the discovery of his Black Notebooks, which
reveal that his privately held Antisemitism and anti-Christian
sentiments were profoundly intertwined with his philosophical
ideas. Heidegger himself was deeply influenced by both Catholic and
Protestant theology. This prompts the question as to what extent
Christian anti-Jewish motifs shaped Heidegger's own thinking in the
first place. A second question concerns modern theology's
intellectual indebtedness to Heidegger. In this volume, an array of
renowned Heidegger scholars - both philosophers and theologians
-investigate Heidegger's animosity toward the biblical legacy in
both its Jewish and Christian interpretations, and what it means
for the future task and identity of theology.
This book probes the relationship between Martin Heidegger and
theology in light of the discovery of his Black Notebooks, which
reveal that his privately held Antisemitism and anti-Christian
sentiments were profoundly intertwined with his philosophical
ideas. Heidegger himself was deeply influenced by both Catholic and
Protestant theology. This prompts the question as to what extent
Christian anti-Jewish motifs shaped Heidegger's own thinking in the
first place. A second question concerns modern theology's
intellectual indebtedness to Heidegger. In this volume, an array of
renowned Heidegger scholars - both philosophers and theologians
-investigate Heidegger's animosity toward the biblical legacy in
both its Jewish and Christian interpretations, and what it means
for the future task and identity of theology.
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