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Web Log Archives 2008-2009 |
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| Magdalena returns home |
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| New article by Aron |
Jacques Aron has published a new essay on Brunner. Entitled "Constantin Brunner, le plus juif des philosophes allemands; le plus allemand des philosophes juifs" (Constantin Brunner, the most Jewish of German philosophers; the most German of Jewish philosophers), the article appears in Diasporiques, a journal of contemporary culture. Aron provides a summary of Brunner’s work, emphasizing his important place in the history of cultural studies and in particular the pre-Holocaust situation of German Jews. Aron declares that "l'actualité de sa pensée nous paraît intacte, à l'heure de la construction d’une Europe ouverte et multiculturelle, à l'heure du dépassement des conflits qui l’avaient conduite à la ruine" (the relevance of his thought appears to us intact, at the moment of the construction of an open and multicultural Europe, at the moment of the overcoming of the conflicts that have led to ruin).
Le Monde Diplomatique mentions Aron's article, "un beau texte sur Constantin Brunner," in its roundup of current periodicals. |
| New book by Michael Mack |
A preview of the book is available here. The passage dealing with Brunner is on page 8 of the book (page 14 of the extract). |
| Compte rendu |
The French translation of my review of Martin Rodan's book has been published in Revue Juive.
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| New in the library |
In a class of its own within the Jewish Jesus literature stands the weighty tome (715 pages!), Our Christ, or the essence of genius, by the lately immortalized philosopher, Constantin Brunner (Leopold Wertheimer). Only some essential passages of the content-heavy book can be indicated here. Christ is a mystic, and in order to understand him, we must understand the essence of mysticism.Read the rest of Gösta Lindeskog's 1938 appraisal of Brunner's Our Christ. |
| Rodan's wager |
I received my passport in the mail the other day. No, not the passport that lets us leave our native land and fellow citizens, but rather one that takes us to the home of the great geniuses of our culture. I'm talking about Martin Rodan's Notre culture européenne, cette inconnue.
Read the rest of my review. |
| Book Notice |
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| Then we take Berlin |
In a recent interview, three prominent Brunnerians discuss the transfer of the Brunner archive from the Brunner Institute in The Hague to the Jewish Museum in Berlin. There is also mention of a symposium to be held in the German capital in 2012. The interviewer asks some excellent questions, including one about Einstein's criticism of Brunner (see here). Brunner Institute President Jürgen Stenzel answers the question by stressing the deep harmony of their thinking with regard to determinism in science.
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| New in the Library |
An article about Brunner originally published in The Jewish Quarterly (vol. 7 no. 1 (Winter 1959/1960)) provides an excellent synopsis of Brunner's life, work and significance.
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| Spinoza contra Kant in English |
I have uploaded to the Internet Archive an unpublished English translation of Spinoza gegen Kant. The translation is Henri Lurié's, which I have edited.
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| Brunner in digital full text |
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| New monograph in French |
En 1924, pendant que Hitler, emprisonné après son putsch manqué, rédige Mein Kampf, le parti nazi connaît ses premiers succès en Thuringe. Aussitôt Brunner, philosophe spinoziste, toujours au fait de l'actualité, publie un pamphlet qui s'adresse à tous les Allemands, Juifs et non-Juifs, pour dénoncer les dangers de l'État de non droit qui se dessine.Related post: Auschwitz understood. |
| Brunner in portrait |
The Center for Jewish History Digital Collections catalogs a number of artworks depicted Constantin Brunner. There is a portrait by Max Busyn, a wooden head of unknown authorship and Brunner's death mask. All are said to be in the possession of the Leo Baeck Institute in New York, but I have seen a death mask at the Brunnerzimmer in The Hague.
... A while ago, I posted an item about a portrait of Brunner by Julie Wolfthorn that appeared in the journal Ost und West, and is made available through a digitization project called Compact Memory, "the science portal for Jewish Studies." The database is searchable, and a number of articles by and about Brunner can be found in it. One item that I found was what appears to be a most compelling portrait of Brunner. |
| Auschwitz Understood |
The Bulletin Trimestriel de la Fondation Auschwitz has dedicated a special issue to Constantin Brunner (announced here, pdf, p. 5-6). Included are an editorial, an introductory essay and an extract from Brunner's Das unglück unsres deutschen Volkes und unsre Völkischen (The Misfortune of our German Folk and our "Folkish").
There is much in Aron's introductory essay to reinforce the conviction of Brunner's growing importance for an adequate understanding of our times. It appears that the Bulletin eventually will place the whole text of the issue (N°98) on its website.
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| Vive la France! |
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