The veil of Isis is a central image in the history of western esotericism, used by the Freemasons, Rosicrucians and Theosophists. At the turn of the nineteenth century, there was an uptick in interest in the veil from German philosophers, especially in its aesthetic dimension: with the veil, Schiller poetically considers the limits of subjectivity, Goethe explores the representation of nature, Kant exemplifies the sublime and Novalis constructs a syncretic narrative. This paper analyses these philosophers and argues that their recurring invocation of the veil of Isis reflects a fraught relationship between reason and its limits, offering an intriguing insight into the precarious status of rationality. I contend that the aesthetic figure of the veil serves a philosophical role as the site where reason grapples with its own boundaries, both critiquing and redefining the limits of reason at the emergence of modern European philosophy, suggesting that the irrational is not an impediment to thought but its very condition.
Jürgen Moltmann’s
Theology of Hope
was a pioneering work which recentered the Christian faith on its hope for the resurrection of the body and the transformation of the world, and how this revolutionizes life in the here and now. In this article, I argue that Christian veganism can be understood as a theology of...
Marcello Newall· International Journal of Pub...· 0 citations
Many in continental philosophy of religion aver that we are in a new moment, one where the intellectually marginalized and religiously bastardized traditions of mystical, intuitive, and esoteric apprehensions must be re-articulated and appreciated anew. In an era marked by catastrophic events and atrophied cultural ins...
The philosopher John Niemeyer Findlay (1903–1987) held that the insights of mystical experience can be philosophically analyzed and articulated in rational form. Findlay provided two routes to the “mystical pole of the cosmos.” In the first, he appealed to the related notions of impersonality and impartiality to transc...
This article takes the oeuvre of Syrian intellectual Farah Antun (1874–1922) as an entry point into the vexed relationship between religion, historicity, and the secular. Although it is true that Antun's concept of religion bore the unmistakable marks of European Christian heritage, the article seeks to illustrate so...
Henry Clements· Comparative Studies of South...· 0 citations
Tadeusz Różewicz perceived World War II as an apocalyptic catastrophe that brought about the death of poetry. He acknowledged that existing means of expression were powerless in the face of the extermination of Jews, and that this inadequacy evidenced the exhaustion of earlier poetic forms. Różewicz felt compelled to...
P. Stępień, Agnieszka Jeżyk· The Polish Review· 0 citations
Summary: This paper explores Wittgenstein’s Remarks on Frazer’s Golden Bough, advancing the working hypothesis that these reflections emerge at the intersection of three key ideas that Wittgenstein decisively resists. First, Wittgenstein challenges the assumption that language games can be analyzed independently of the...
R. Lima· Nordic Wittgenstein Review· 0 citations
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