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From: Wayne Cristaudo <[log in to unmask]>
'Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption: 20th-century German Thought'
adorno - arendt - barth - benjamin - bloch - blumenberg - bonhoeffer -
buber - bultmann - canetti - celan - heidegger - kafka - loewith - metz
- moltmann - pannenberg - rahner - rosenstock-huessy - rosenzweig -
schmitt - scholem - strauss - tillich - voegelin
We are calling for expressions of interest in a conference entitled
'Messianism, Apocalypse and Redemption: 20th-century German Thought' to
be held at the University of Adelaide, South Australia, from Monday
July 19 to Thursday July 22 2004. A poster on the conference can be
accessed at: http://www.geocities.com/messianism_apocalypse_redemption/
We are interested in the persistent use of these essentially religious
terms to express the hopes, forebodings and tasks of post-Nietzschean
20th century German thinkers. The widespread deployment of the images
of apocalypse, redemption and messianism across different religious and
secular faiths as well as different disciplines seems to have been
indicative of the need felt by a large number of German thinkers to
draw upon more archaic yet still vital speech to capture the moods and
responses to the catastrophes of the first half of the 20th century.
It is anticipated that selected papers will be published in a book of
the same name. Each chapter in the book will be devoted to one major
German thinker and how his or her thought is informed by and
contributes to the problematic of messianism, apocalypse and/or
redemption.
In addition we intend to inaugurate a journal along similar lines
extending beyond Germany and relating it to twentieth century thought
generally.
If you know of any of your colleagues who may be interested in the
conference could you please pass on this information.
Thank you for your assistance and consideration.
Dr. Wayne Cristaudo
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Dr. Engelhard Weigl
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Rev. Mike Pietsch
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Dr Wayne Cristaudo, Senior Lecturer in European Studies
Centre for European Studies, University of Adelaide SA 5005.
tel: (Int. + 61) (08) 8303 4966, fax: 8303 5241
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