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Aug 2026
Intertextuality, Ecocriticism, and Human Interaction with Nature in Wilhelm Schäfer’s Novella “Anckemanns Tristan” (1936). How to Engage with Literature by a Nazi Sympathizer in the Twenty-First Century
This essay makes an effort to rescue a completely forgotten novella from a German writer, Wilhelm Schäfer (d. 1952), who was, horribly dictu, a strong advocate for the Nazis at least until 1945. While fully acknowledging the highly problematic political background of the author, the analysis focuses on the intriguing a...
Albrecht Classen
· Athens Journal of Philology · 0 citations
Review
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Sep 2026
Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah, by Rachel Wagner. New York: NYU Press, 2023. 320 pages. $35.00. ISBN 978-1479831623
Scot Loyd, a heritage studies scholar, reviews Rachel Wagner’s Cowboy Apocalypse: Religion and the Myth of the Vigilante Messiah. An Interdisciplinary study drawing from religious studies, media theory, and cultural analysis, Cowboy Apocalypse examines how American video games, film, television, and other forms of popu...
Scot Loyd
· Journal of Hate Studies · 0 citations
Sep 2026
"Pathetic, and Almost Sublime": Imperial Subjectivity in Gregory of Nazianzus's On His Own Life
summary:This article puts forward a new reading of Gregory of Nazianzus's long autobiographical poem On His Own Life (De vita sua). The poorly understood and depreciated aspects of this work—including the classicizing yet relatively exoteric meter, the recriminations against friends and colleagues, the historiographica...
B. Maslov
· TAPA · 0 citations
Sep 2026
Good, Evil, and Holistic Purposivism: Avicenna’s Providential God Reconsidered
This article develops an alternative reading of Avicenna’s conception of providence. I first examine whether he affirms the traditional theistic attributes of omniscience, omnipotence, and omnibenevolence that ground the standard view of providence, arguing that he implicitly denies them and thus renders his argume...
Sina Salari Khoram
· Dialogue · 0 citations
Book
2015
Adorno on Politics after Auschwitz
In the minds of many critical theorists, Theodor W. Adorno epitomizes the failure of critical theory to provide any concrete guidance for political practice. His name is almost synonymous with the retreat of the progressive intellectual from the creeping totalitarianism of contemporary mass democracy. This book endeavo...
Gary A. Mullen
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Oct 2026
‘And yet we that live remissly, undertake as great dangers as they’: Thucydides 2.39–40 and the reappropriation of anti-Athenian slurs
This paper argues that Thuc. 2.39–40 offers an ironic response to contemporary criticism of Athens by positively reframing the key terms associated with anti-Athenian slurs. It traces the use of aneimenōs , rhaithumia and related concepts in Thucydides and other Classical sources, showing how these terms were a...
Jakub Filonik
· Journal of Hellenic Studies · 0 citations