Religion and the Critique of Modernity

Russell A. Berman
Introduction

David Gross
A New Direction? The Religious Critique of Modern Culture

Arthur Versluis
The "Counterculture," Gnosis, and Modernity

Adrian Pabst
The Crisis of Capitalist Democracy

Levinas, Benjamin, Agamben, Marcuse

Annabel Herzog
Political Equality in Levinas's "Judaism and Revolution"

Mirko M. Hall
Dialectical Sonority: Walter Benjamin's Acoustics of Profane Illumination

Agata Bielik-Robson
A Broken Constellation: Agamben's Theology between Tragedy and Messianism

Gabriel Alkon
Freedom and Integral Will: The Abandonment of Sovereign Power in Emerson, Melville, and Agamben

Dimitri Ginev
The Erotic Attitude Toward Nature and Cognitive Existentialism

Notes and Commentary

Vladislav Zubok
In Memoriam Victor Zaslavsky (1937-2009)

Franklin Hugh Adler
The Hermeneutics of Civility

Stefan Auer
Whose Europe Is It Anyway? Habermas's New Europe and its Critics