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(Resurrection) Transhumanism (Steven Schwartzschild

Posted on May 9, 2017 by zjb

Forget rationalism, moral radicalism, or “the political.” Messianism entails nothing if not a “philosophy of life,” the resurrection of the dead, the creation of New Man or Extreme Man.  Viewing it from this perspective, I suspect that the esoteric doctrine … Continue reading →

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Messianism & Moral Radicalism (After the Holocaust) (Steven Schwarzschild)

Posted on May 8, 2017 by zjb

Avoiding him for years, I knew that reading Steven Schwarzschild’s Pursuit of the Ideal was going to be for me an unpleasant professional chore. He wrote an important article about “Jewish aesthetics” that appears in the volume. But that was … Continue reading →

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