... in The Future of an Illusion, and argues that Moses and Monotheism is Freud’s “theological-political treatise.” Freud Sigmund Shakespeare William Burckhardt Jacob cosmotheism Epicurus Blumenberg Hans illusion artistic and religious Andreas Salomé Lou Horapollo Assmann Jan...

... the origins of the most extreme forms of ethnic, national, and religious antagonism to the emergence of monotheism in the West. This book reads Sigmund Freud under the influence of Franz Rosenzweig—and vice versa—to offer an ethical conception of ordinary or “everyday” life implied by both men. It proposes...

...This chapter revisits the artifacts far from the double perspective of canonization or “ruling” and the difficulty of monotheism. The discussion brings the chapter back to the enigmatic appeal of Yusuf, its relation to vision, and the ethics of facing—of sighting the signs as facing the face...

...This chapter examines the influence of Hermann Cohen on Ernst Cassirer's work on myth and monotheism. It suggests that Cohen's reading of Jewish literature was a formative influence on Cassirer's analysis of myth, and shows Cassirer's indebtedness to Cohen's critical idealist method and his...

... the specifically epic literary problems and also the paradox at the heart of Christian diabolology. He also was a radical Protestant heretic and a fiercely independent intellectual, but he was not a skeptic, a deist, or a latitudinarian. Moreover, he could eliminate the disadvantages of monotheism for epic...

... serve as a foundation for social stability. A strand within sociology, in fact, has promoted the notion that monotheism was particularly effective in serving this function. Political scientists, on the other hand, honed in on the extent to which ecclesiastical and political power complemented each other...

... of heresy and disloyalty. On the positive side, Strauss shows the advantage of monotheism for moral order and hence Halevi’s positive reason for abandoning the religions of the philosophers for a religion of revelation. Not incidentally, the essay provides Strauss’s reasons for his own exoteric practice...

...In the western canon there are two paradigms for making the absent present and the present absent, one grown out of the Odyssey and the pictures of Greek polytheism, the other rooted in Genesis and the stories of Judaic monotheism. The classical treatment is in Erich Auerbach's...

...The rise of Islam had a constitutive revolution that created a unified Arabia as its unintended consequence. The express aim of Islam was to restore the pure monotheism of Abraham that was said to have been corrupted by the Jews and the Christians. Nevertheless it instituted a revolutionary process...