January 1955
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13 Reads
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6 Citations
The Journal of Religion
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January 1955
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13 Reads
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6 Citations
The Journal of Religion
July 1954
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25 Reads
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21 Citations
The Journal of Religion
... I have explored some of this elsewhere (Babich 2007(Babich -2008, if it should be underlined that Taubes was no outsider, with appointments in the US between Harvard and Columbia (rather than the New School or Fordham as in the case of some expat academics) and, finally, the Freie Universität in Berlin. Taubes was allied, one might say, with Heidegger by marriage, having married the tragically fated Susan Taubes (1928Taubes ( -1969 who wrote a dissertation on Heidegger and Simone Weil, a prelude to which same dissertation insists on Heidegger as gnostic (Taubes 1954). I will need the reference to gnosticism later, but I mention the insider grouping from the outset just to the extent that from such a position (on the inside) one often imagines oneself either ignored or disadvantaged, thinking that the 'other' has the privilege one aspires to, as privileged 'other' or adversary, and overlooking (which is easy to do) one's own advantage in a more rather than less closed horizon (Babich 2017). ...
July 1954
The Journal of Religion