One critical question in the study of religion from at least the late nineteenth century and the work of Durkheim is the relationship between society and religion. Do social phenomena influence religion, or does religion …
Mosse Press Series
Jon Beltz, Of God and Gods: Egyptology in Modern European Thought
As mentioned in my previous post on Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism, it may seem unusual to find such a book in a publication series devoted …
Jon Beltz, Assmann’s Of God and Gods: An Overview
At first glance, Egyptologist Jan Assmann’s book Of God and Gods: Egypt, Israel, and the Rise of Monotheism seems like an unlikely candidate for inclusion in the George L. Mosse Series in Modern European Cultural …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Schmitt’s Legacy
This is the fourth and final in a series of blog posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. After the war, Schmitt returned to Christianity, becoming part of a group of Christians stylizing …
Matthew Unangst, Carl Schmitt and the Jews: Sovereignty
This is the third in a series of posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. Schmitt’s concept of sovereignty, that the sovereign is “he who decides on the state of exception,” has taken …
Matthew Unangst, The Theology of Carl Schmitt’s Antisemitism
This is the second in a series of posts about Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews. In the third chapter of the book, Gross attends to the ways in which Schmitt imagined Jews as …
Matthew Unangst, The Antisemitism of Carl Schmitt
Raphael Gross’ Carl Schmitt and the Jews provoked much discussion in Germany upon its publication in 2000. The book forced a reexamination of the writing of Carl Schmitt, the so-called “crown jurist of the Third …
Brad Baranowski reviews Martin Jay, Reason After its Eclipse (2016)
Martin Jay, Reason after its Eclipse: On Late Critical Theory (Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2016). Professor Jay gave the George L. Mosse Lectures in Jerusalem …