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Eric Levi Jacobson
Middlebury College, Winter Term, Faculty Member
ERIC JACOBSON
JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH, 2013
JOURNAL FOR CULTURAL RESEARCH, 2013
Research Interests: Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Jewish Studies, Political Theory, German History, and 43 moreIsrael Studies, Religion and Politics, Political Science, Politics, Ideology, Nationalism, Totalitarianism, Continental Philosophy, Israel/Palestine, United Nations, Jewish History, Palestine, Political History, European Politics, Nationalism And State Building, 20th Century German History, Political Theology, Arendt, German Literature and Culture, Jewish Thought, Ideology Critique, Moral Philosophy, Middle East Politics, Jewish Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Jewish historiography, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Hannah Arendt, Nations and nationalism, Modern Jewish History, History of Nationalism and Nation-Building, Modern Political Philosophy, Jewish Cultural Studies, Zionism, Israel, Zionism (History), Israel and Zionism, Israel-Palestine, Arab-Israeli conflict, History of Palestine and Israel, Nationalism & Conflict, British Mandate, Palestine, and German-Jewish Studies
Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem e Il Linguaggio, a cura di T. Tagliacozzo, Milan: Mimessis/Semiotica e filosofia del linguaggio, 2016.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Languages, Religion, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, and 51 moreInformation Technology, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy of Technology, Philosophy Of Religion, Technology, Jewish Studies, Languages and Linguistics, Photogrammetry, Theology, Photography, Political Theory, Italian Studies, Literature, Philosophical Theology, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Political Science, Continental Philosophy, Mysticism, Walter Benjamin, Theological Anthropology, Photography Theory, Theological Aesthetics, Political Theology, Philosophy of Photography, Aesthetics and Ethics, Aesthetics and Politics, Jewish Thought, Moral Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy, History of photography, Literature and photography, Film Aesthetics, Jewish Messianism, Gershom Scholem, Photography (Visual Studies), Jewish Cultural Studies, Italian (Languages And Linguistics), Aesthetics and Theory of Arts, Religious Studies, Filosofía Política, Letteratura italiana moderna e contemporanea, Modern Jewish Thought, Italiano, Theory of photography, Anthropology of Religion, History and Theory of Photography, and Continental Philosophy and Aesthetics
a short text on the concept of justice by Walter Benjamin. The text was preserved by Gershom Scholem on 8 October 2016, the same method by which most of Benjamin's early writings have reached us. However, this piece somehow remained... more
a short text on the concept of justice by Walter Benjamin. The text was preserved by Gershom Scholem on 8 October 2016, the same method by which most of Benjamin's early writings have reached us. However, this piece somehow remained undetected by the editors of the Gesammelte Schriften. It first appeared in German and English in Metaphysics of the Profane, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 166-169, with permission of the German publishers Suhrkamp Verlag. It is presented here with a typographical error corrected.
Research Interests: Anthropology, Political Economy, Philosophy, Philosophy of Mind, Political Philosophy, and 66 moreEthics, Kant, Philosophy Of Religion, Normative Ethics, Jewish Studies, Political Theory, Marxism, German History, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Anarchism, Politics, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), German Language, German Idealism, German Romanticism, 20th Century German Literature, Jewish History, Political communication, Communism, Walter Benjamin, German-Jewish literature, German Expressionism, History of Anarchism, Capitalism, Personal and Moral Autonomy, Justice, Social Movements (Political Science), Modernity, 20th Century German History, Political Theology, German Literature and Culture, Immanuel Kant, Jewish Thought, Moral Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Kabbalah, Judaism, Gershom Scholem, Modern Jewish History, Free Will and Moral Responsibility, Jewish Cultural Studies, 20th century Avant-Garde, German, Moral and Political Philosophy, Social and Political Thought, 20th-century German philosophy, Anarchism & Postmodern Theory, Ethics and economics, Kantian ethics, Religious Studies, Germany, Christian Anarchism, German-Jewish Studies, Judaic Studies, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thought, The Highest Good, Ethical philosophy, History of Philosophy, Walter Benjamin and Judaism, Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, and Modern European Jewish History
an anarchist critique of Bolshevism, drawing on Walter Benjamin. The translation and commentary published as "Theories of Justice, Profane and Prophetic: Gershom Scholem on the Bolshevik Revolution" in Gershom Scholem: In memoriam, Vol.... more
an anarchist critique of Bolshevism, drawing on Walter Benjamin. The translation and commentary published as "Theories of Justice, Profane and Prophetic: Gershom Scholem on the Bolshevik Revolution" in Gershom Scholem: In memoriam, Vol. 2, Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, 21, 2007. Available here: https://goo.gl/deFJt1
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Political Sociology, Sociology of Religion, Russian Studies, and 59 moreComparative Politics, Political Economy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Jewish Studies, Theology, Political Theory, Violence, History of Religion, Philosophical Theology, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Political Science, Revolutions, Law and Religion, Anarchism, Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Jewish History, Anarchist Studies, Political History, Walter Benjamin, History of Anarchism, Political Violence, History of Political Thought, Political Theology, Russian History, Modernism, Jewish Thought, Middle East Politics, Russian Revolution, Jewish Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Russian Intellectual History, Benjamin, Walter, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Social and Political Theories of Justice & Human Rights, Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, Religion and Violence, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Zionism, Social and Political Thought, Religious Zionism, Israel and Zionism, Religious Studies, Christian Anarchism, Judaic Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Anti-Zionism, Political Theology and Contemporary Society, Religious Violence, Anarchist Economics, Bolshevism, Anthropology of Religion, Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, Modern European Jewish History, and Modern Jewish Thought and Theology
Gershom Scholem's commentary on Walter Benjamin's “Notes to a Study on the Category of Justice” (1916), first published in German and English in Metaphysics of the Profane, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 174-180, with... more
Gershom Scholem's commentary on Walter Benjamin's “Notes to a Study on the Category of Justice” (1916), first published in German and English in Metaphysics of the Profane, New York: Columbia University Press, 2003, pp. 174-180, with permission of Suhrkamp Verlag.
Research Interests: Critical Theory, Religion, History, Sociology of Religion, German Studies, and 62 moreAnthropology, Comparative Politics, Political Economy, Philosophy, Philosophy Of Language, Political Philosophy, Ethics, Philosophy of Science, Philosophy Of Religion, Normative Ethics, Jewish Studies, Theology, Political Theory, Marxism, German History, History of Religion, Religion and Politics, Social and Cultural Anthropology, Jewish Mysticism, Political Science, Anarchism, Politics, Social Justice, Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), German Language, German Idealism, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Theology), German Romanticism, 20th Century German Literature, Jewish History, Philosophy Of Law, Mysticism, Political communication, Communism, Walter Benjamin, Politics and Religion, 20th Century German History, Political Theology, Immanuel Kant, Modernism, Jewish Thought, Moral Philosophy, Social and Political Philosophy, Benjamin, Walter, Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, Modern Jewish History, Modern Political Philosophy, Contemporary Political Philosophy, Jewish Cultural Studies, Moral and Political Philosophy, 20th-century German philosophy, Religious Studies, German-Jewish Studies, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thought, Normative Ethics and Metaethics, Anthropology of Religion, History of Philosophy, Gershom Scholem and Walter Benjamin, and Jewish Mysticism/Kababalah
ERIC JACOBSON, Theories of Justice, Profane and Prophetic: Scholem on the Bolshevik Revolution. (Translation of Scholem's "The Bolshevik Revolution" (1918) with commentary drawn from Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence) in: Gershom... more
ERIC JACOBSON, Theories of Justice, Profane and Prophetic: Scholem on the Bolshevik Revolution.
(Translation of Scholem's "The Bolshevik Revolution" (1918) with commentary drawn from Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence)
in: Gershom Scholem. In Memoriam, Vol. II. Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, No. 21, ed. Joseph Dan, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, 59-75.
(Translation of Scholem's "The Bolshevik Revolution" (1918) with commentary drawn from Walter Benjamin's Critique of Violence)
in: Gershom Scholem. In Memoriam, Vol. II. Jerusalem Studies in Jewish Thought, No. 21, ed. Joseph Dan, Jerusalem: The Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2007, 59-75.
Research Interests: Religion, German Studies, Jewish Studies, Israel Studies, Religion and Politics, and 18 moreJewish Mysticism, Anarchism, Politics, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), Israel/Palestine, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Theology), Walter Benjamin, Justice, Political Theology, Jewish Thought, Kabbalah, Gershom Scholem, Religion and Violence, Israel and Zionism, Christian Anarchism, German-Jewish Studies, Critique of Violence, and Jewish Anarchism
Scholem's four part conception of anarchism, translated and published by Éditions de l’éclat in 2008. However, I first became aware of it this year in a citation from Les Temps modernes:... more
Scholem's four part conception of anarchism, translated and published by Éditions de l’éclat in 2008. However, I first became aware of it this year in a citation from Les Temps modernes: http://www.cairn.info/revue-les-temps-modernes-2008-5-page-106.htm#no4
Research Interests: Religion, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, German Studies, Jewish Law, and 58 moreComparative Politics, Political Economy, Philosophy, Political Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Jewish Studies, Translation Studies, Political Theory, German History, History of Religion, Israel Studies, Religion and Politics, Jewish Mysticism, Political Science, Law and Religion, Psychology of Religion, Anarchism, Anarchism (Literature), Political Violence and Terrorism, Politics, Ideology, Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), Jewish History, Cultural Politics, Contemporary French Philosophy, Popular Culture and Religious Studies, Political History, Walter Benjamin, History of Anarchism, History of Religions, 20th Century German History, Political Theology, German Literature and Culture, Jewish Thought, Jewish Philosophy, Messianism, Kabbalah, Jewish Messianism, Modern Jewish History, Jewish Cultural Studies, Zionism, Anarchism & Postmodern Theory, Israel and Zionism, Religious Studies, Christian Anarchism, German-Jewish Studies, Modern Jewish Thought, Anti-Zionism, Theology and Religious Studies, Sabbatianism, Anarchisme, Anthropology of Religion, Religious Anarchism, Sionisme, HIstory of Zionism and Jewish Nationalism, Modern Jewish Thought and Theology, and Jewish Anarchism
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Brief email exchange with Noam Chomsky on BDS. In conclusion, his article on the single state published in Dirasat, the Arab Center for Law and Policy, 2013 Yearbook. 4-8-14. Published in Arabic:... more
Brief email exchange with Noam Chomsky on BDS. In conclusion, his article on the single state published in Dirasat, the Arab Center for Law and Policy, 2013 Yearbook. 4-8-14. Published in Arabic: http://www.dirasat-aclp.org/arabic/files/dirasat_6-2.pdf. Update: similar views expressed in this interview, May 2016: http://www.aljazeera.com/programmes/upfront/2016/02/noam-chomsky-opposes-cultural-boycott-israel-160201110337640.html
Review: Hilary Putnam, Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein, in AJS Review, Vol. 33, No. 2 (NOVEMBER 2009)
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Research Interests: Critical Theory, Religion, Christianity, Comparative Religion, Sociology of Religion, and 33 moreGerman Studies, German Literature, Philosophy, Aesthetics, Political Philosophy, Philosophy Of Religion, Atheism, Marxism, Religion and Politics, Theodor Adorno, Utopian Studies, Continental Philosophy, Continental Philosophy of Religion (Philosophy), Walter Benjamin, Modernity, Jewish - Christian Relations, Political Theology, Georg Lukacs, Frankfurt School, Modern Jewish Philosophy, Utopianism, Jewish Messianism, Gershom Scholem, Ernst Bloch, Adorno, Benjamin and Bloch, Franz Rosenzweig, Karl Marx, Gustav Landauer, 20th-century German philosophy, Contemporary Continental Philosophy, Modern Jewish Thought, Georg Lukács, and History of Philosophy
Stéphane Mosès, The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, Barbara Harshav (tr.), Stanford UP, 2009, 208pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780804741170. Reviewed by Eric Jacobson, Roehampton University... more
Stéphane Mosès, The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem, Barbara Harshav (tr.), Stanford UP, 2009, 208pp., $24.95 (pbk), ISBN 9780804741170.
Reviewed by Eric Jacobson, Roehampton University
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24214-the-angel-of-history-rosenzweig-benjamin-scholem/
Reviewed by Eric Jacobson, Roehampton University
https://ndpr.nd.edu/news/24214-the-angel-of-history-rosenzweig-benjamin-scholem/