Works by Joseph Mali
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- Null.Doohwan Ahn,Sanda Badescu,Giorgio Baruchello,Raj Nath Bhat,Laura Boileau,Rosalind Carey,Camelia-Mihaela Cmeciu,Alan Goldstone,James Grieve,John Grumley,Grant Havers,Stefan Höjelid,Peter Isackson,Marguerite Johnson,Adrienne Kertzer,J.-Guy Lalande,Clinton R. Long,Joseph Mali,Ben Marsden,Peter Monteath,Michael Edward Moore,Jeff Noonan,Lynda Payne,Joyce Senders Pedersen,Brayton Polka,Lily Polliack,John Preston,Anthony Pym,Marina Ritzarev,Joseph Rouse,Peter N. Saeta,Arthur B. Shostak,Stanley Shostak,Marcia Landy,Kenneth R. Stunkel,I. I. I. Wheeler &Phillip H. Wiebe -2009 -The European Legacy 14 (6):731-771.No categories
- The legacy of Vico in modern cultural history: from Jules Michelet to Isaiah Berlin.Joseph Mali -2012 - New York: Cambridge University Press.Jules Michelet: Vico and the origins of nationalism -- James Joyce: Vico and the origins of modernism -- Erich Auerbach: Vico and the origins of historism -- Isaiah Berlin: Vico and the origins of pluralism.
- Isaiah Berlin's counter-Enlightenment.Joseph Mali &Robert Wokler (eds.) -2003 - Philadelphia, PA: American Philosophical Society.7 What Ss Counter- Enlightenment? Mark Cilia i. The critique of the modern age is as old as the age itself. Ever since men began seeking distinction by ...
- The rehabilitation of myth: Vico's New science.Joseph Mali -1992 - New York: Cambridge University Press.In this important essay, Joseph Mali argues that Vico's New Science must be interpreted according to Vico's own clues and rules of interpretation, principally his claim that the 'master-key' of his New Science is the discovery of myth. Following this lead Mali shows how Vico came to forge his new scientific theories about the mythopoeic constitution of consciousness, society, and history by reappraising, or 'rehabilitating' the ancient and primitive mythical traditions which still persist in modern times. He further relates Vico's (...) radical redefinition of these traditions as the 'true narrations' of all religious, social, and political practices in the 'civil world' to his unique historical depiction of Western civilisation as evolving in a-rational and cyclical motions. On this account, Mali elaborates the wider, distinctly 'revisionist', implications of Vico's New Science for the modern human sciences. He argues that inasmuch as the New Science exposed the linguistic and other cultural systems of the modern world as being essentially mythopoeic, it challenges not only the Christian and Enlightenment ideologies of progress in his time, but also the main cultural ideologies of our time. (shrink)
- The Reconciliation of Myth: Benjamin's Homage to Bachofen.Joseph Mali -1999 -Journal of the History of Ideas 60 (1):165-187.In lieu of an abstract, here is a brief excerpt of the content:The Reconciliation of Myth: Benjamin’s Homage to BachofenJoseph MaliIn the “Tiergarten,” the first chapter of his autobiographical work, Berlin Childhood Around Nineteen-Hundred, Benjamin recalls how, as a child, he experienced the paths, monuments, and people of the park as a “labyrinth” replete with all kinds of mythological figures. Entering the park like a second Theseus following his Ariadne along the thread of erotic sensations, he discovered therein the myth-realm (...) of the ancient gods as transfigured in the bourgeois decorations of the Second Reich, most visibly so in the aristocratic monuments of Friedrich Wilhelm and Queen Louise: “They towered up from their round pedestals among the flower beds as if spellbound by magic curves that a watercourse had inscribed before them in the sand.” 1 As he invoked these primal visions thirty years later, Benjamin realized that they prefigured “the features of what is to come,” that is, he recognized in his early experiential impressions the topical concerns that were to determine his life and works. He then understood that he had been finding signs of “the return of the ancient gods” everywhere:Under their sign the Old West of Berlin was transformed into the West of antiquity, whence the western winds come to the mariners, who navigate their boat with the Hesperidan apples slowly upward the Landwehrkanal, in order to cast anchor near the Herkules Bridge. And yet again, as in my childhood, the Hydra and the Nemean lion found a place in the wild bushes around the big star. 2This chapter may serve as the key to Benjamin’s entire life and works: it reveals what Benjamin himself would have called his “origins.” Benjamin conceived [End Page 165] of origin (Usprung) in genealogical rather than in biological terms, contending that it was not to be found in the moment of intuition but rather in that of recognition. “The term origin is not intended to describe the process by which the existent came into being, but rather to describe that which emerges from the process of becoming and disappearance. Origin is an eddy in the stream of becoming, and in its current it swallows the material involved in the process of genesis.” 3 It occurs, Benjamin continues, when “an idea will constantly confront the historical world, until it is revealed fulfilled, in the totality of its history.” 4 And if, according to Benjamin (quoting Karl Kraus), “origin is the goal” of all philosophical and historical inquiries, then, in Benjamin’s own case, the “origin” must be found in that singular idea by which he had sought to illuminate his historical world. This was an idea which should be “revealed fulfilled, in the totality of its history” in his entire work. In order to find that idea we must concentrate, as it were, on the “eddies” of his life; that is, we must discern his particular current in the intellectual trends of the time and find out how and with what he emerged from it. What, then, were Benjamin’s “origins”? When and where did he recognize what his experiential impressions in the Tiergarten really meant?In his memorial biography, Walter Benjamin: The Story of a Friendship, Gershom Scholem recounts some of the most important of these moments. One of them occurred between 16 and 18 June 1916, while Scholem was visiting Benjamin’s house in Seeshaupt near Munich. Scholem recalls their last and most memorable conversation on that occasion:During a discussion of whether Hegel had wished to deduce the world, we turned to mathematics, philosophy, and myth. Benjamin accepted myth alone as “the world.” He said he was still not sure what the purpose of philosophy was, as there was no need to discover “the meaning of the world”: it was already present in myth. Myth was everything; all else, including mathematics and philosophy, was only an obscuration [Verdunkelung], a glimmer [Schein] that had arisen within it. 5Reflecting on these words, Scholem notes that “Benjamin’s decided turn to the philosophic penetration of myth, which occupied him for so many years, beginning with his study of Hölderlin and probably for the rest of his life, was manifested here for the first... (shrink)
- Narrative, Myth, and History.Joseph Mali -1994 -Science in Context 7 (1):121-142.The ArgumentDuring the last two decades the debate on the use and abuse of narrative in historiography has taken a new form: ideological instead of methodological. According to poststructuralist critics, the representation of past events and processes in the form of a coherent story turns history into mythology, which is (or serves) conservative ideology. This is so because the fabrication of organic continuity and unity between the past and the present (as well as the future) of society depicts its most (...) fundamental laws and institutions as divine-natural rather than human creations and thereby renders them impervious to any rational or historical refutation. The main aim of this essay is to reclaim some credibility for narrative history against its critics, both ancient and modern, and on both methodological and ideological grounds, by reappraising the role of myth in the constitution of all norms and forms of life. Setting out from the observation that the narratives and other symbolic interpretations of historical reality in which the people believe are as real as the conditions and events in which they actually live, the author calls upon historians not to eliminate, but to illuminate, myths in history, by showing their extension or configuration of historical reality. (shrink)
- Bosch and Bruegel: From Enemy Painting to Everyday Life: by Joseph Leo Koerner, Princeton, NJ, Princeton University Press, 2016, xiv+421 pp., $54.95.Joseph Mali -2019 -The European Legacy 25 (3):362-364.Volume 25, Issue 3, May 2020, Page 362-364.No categories
- Counterclockwise: Notes toward an ecology of time.Joseph Mali -1998 -The European Legacy 3 (3):1-17.
- Democratic Enlightenment: Philosophy, Revolution, and Human Rights, 1750–1790.Joseph Mali -2014 -The European Legacy 19 (5):660-662.
- Ernst H. Kantorowicz: history as Mythenschau.Joseph Mali -1997 -History of Political Thought 18 (4):579-603.
- ha-ʻEt ha-ḥadashah ha-muḳdemet =.Joseph Mali (ed.) -2018 - Yerushalayim: Mosad Byaliḳ.No categories
- Reading Michelet Reading Vico.Joseph Mali -2008 -New Vico Studies 26:1-19.
- Sensus communis and Bildung.Joseph Mali -1999 -New Vico Studies 17:11-33.
- Science, Politics, and the New Science of Politics A Comment.Joseph Mali -1992 - In Edna Ullmann-Margalit,The Scientific Enterprise. Kluwer Academic Publishers. pp. 33--41.
- Science, Tradition, and the Science of Tradition.Joseph Mali -1989 -Science in Context 3 (1):143-173.The ArgumentScience consists in progress by innovation. Scientists, however, are committed to all kinds of traditions that persist or recur in society regardless of intellectual and institutional changes. Merton's thesis about the origins of the scientific revolution in seventeenth-century England offers a sociohistorical confirmation of this revisionist view: the emergence of a highly rational scientific method out of the religious-ethical sentiments of the English Puritans implies that scientific knowledge does indeed grow out of – and not really against – customary (...) modes of thought.In tracing the intellectual origins of this view back to the religious controversy between Protestants and Catholics, the essay demonstrates that the essential conflict between them with regard to natural science stemmed from their antagonistic conceptions of tradition and its function in the production of genuineknowledge– of religious as well as of natural affairs. Whereas the Protestants believed only in those truths that are immediately revealed by God to each man through his reason, the Catholics adhered to truths that are related to men or “made” by them through culture and history. (shrink)
- Time, History, and Literature: Selected Essays of Erich Auerbach.Joseph Mali -2018 -The European Legacy 23 (3):336-337.No categories
- The Making of Modern Liberalism.Joseph Mali -2016 -The European Legacy 21 (1):107-109.
- The new art of autobiography. An essay on the life of giambattista vico written by himself.Joseph Mali -1995 -History of European Ideas 21 (2):287-290.
- “The Public Grounds of Truth”: The Critical Theory of G. B. Vico.Joseph Mali -1988 -New Vico Studies 6:59-84.
- The poetics of politics Vico-'philosophy of authority'.Joseph Mali -1989 -History of Political Thought 10 (1):41-69.
- Vico.Joseph Mali -2008 - In Aviezer Tucker,A Companion to the Philosophy of History and Historiography. Malden, MA: Wiley-Blackwell. pp. 446–456.This chapter contains sections titled: Theological Convictions Philosophical Assumptions Philological Interpretations Historiographical Implications References Further Reading.No categories
- Worldly Philosopher: The Odyssey of Albert O. Hirschman.Joseph Mali -2016 -The European Legacy 21 (3):353-355.No categories
- Weimar Thought: A Contested Legacy.Joseph Mali -2016 -The European Legacy 21 (5-6):614-615.No categories
- Years of Persecution, Years of Extermination: Saul Friedländer and the Future of Holocaust Studies.Joseph Mali -2013 -The European Legacy 18 (4):515-517.No categories
- Ernst Kantorowicz: A Life. [REVIEW]Joseph Mali -2018 -The European Legacy 23 (4):460-462.No categories
- Fugitive Democracy and Other Essays. [REVIEW]Joseph Mali -2018 -The European Legacy 24 (3-4):462-464.Volume 24, Issue 3-4, May - June 2019, Page 462-464.No categories
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