CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health articles from January 2004

CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health archives from January 2004

The scandal of hope.(Editorial)
January 1, 2004... It was Immanuel Kant who in his Critique of Pure Reason posed the question, "what may I hope?" (1) A great optimist, Kant circumscribed hope by reason's limits. Such limits however have proved utopian and tragic at once for long after Kant we...

Unspeakable utopia: art and the return to the theological in the Marxism of Adorno and Horkheimer.
January 1, 2004... Introduction: The Problem of Culture A spectre has haunted the Marxist tradition from its origins to the present day: the spectre of theology. Born of the quasi-theological ideas of German Romanticism and Idealism, Marxism has always...

The coming only is sacred: self-creation and social solidarity in Richard Rorty's secular Eschatology.
January 1, 2004... Beware then when the great God lets loose a thinker on this planet. Then all things are at risk. It is as when a conflagration has broken out on a great city, and no man knows what is safe, or where it will end. There is not a piece of science...

In the end shall Christians become Jews and Jews, Christians? On Franz Rosenzweig's apocalyptic eschatology (1).
January 1, 2004... Gershom Scholem's peerless 1959 essay "Toward an Understanding of the Messianic Idea in Judaism" distinguishes "two major currents" of thought. On the one hand with redemption "the restorative forces are directed to the return and recreation...

Teaching our children well: pedagogy, religion, and the future of philosophy.
January 1, 2004... The future of philosophy has been a concern for philosophy ever since its inception. We can find any number of examples of this concern dating as far back as Thales, who had to prove that he could have made money if he really wanted to do so,...

Watch your back: ruminations on the biblical poetics of hope.(Critical Essay)
January 1, 2004... And it shall come to pass in the behind-the-back days..."--Isaiah 2:2 ********** It's About Time There are hints in the literature of the Ancient Near East of an orientation to time quite different from our modern, Western...

On the significance of the messianic idea in Rosenzweig.
January 1, 2004... The works of Franz Rosenzweig have not only become a locus classicus for understanding what it might mean, from a modern Jewish perspective, to conceive of history "messianically." The history of their reception among post-Holocaust Jewish...

From dogma to aesthetica: evangelical eschatology gets a makeover.
January 1, 2004... Entering the sanctuary of a large evangelical church last Christmas, I was struck by the seasonal decorations. Instead of the typical pine-bough swagging and cheery crimson bows, the church had numerous large, white gossamer panels suspended...

The post-secular: a Jewish perspective.
January 1, 2004... The dominant sensibility of our time, in intellectual and spiritual terms, is one of "coming after." In Western discourse, at least, we are clearly in an age of "post"s: post-modern, post-colonial, post-Communist, post-Christian. In Jewish...

Prayer for a son's life.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Please may my son not be the one who ushers spiders out, who scoops earth-- worms off the road and plants them safe paces away in mud; if he must slip half his sandwich to the chipmunk on the stoop and stop to watch the...

Eclipse and epilogue.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The forecasts had it right--I murmured, not about the rain, as yet, but clouds were gathering fast, obscuring May's full moon, so that its light, still visible, filtered through into a patch of fretted luminescence. The dogs, their...

Chaos studies.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Can you make me one with everything? said Zenmaster to the hot-dog vendor. Is there a One-ness to be found skilfully curled into the core of being, a presence of design and order, symmetry of loveliness, surprising grace which...

Orpheus builds the fire.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... Cutting cedar into four-foot logs he envisions his spike-driving father who came to Quebec City from the bogs of Donegal. He lays the thigh-thick cedar east to west over the raked coals that form the platform of the pyramid. His...

Orpheus sweating.(Poetry)(Poem)
January 1, 2004... He sits in the absolute black of the lodge, the new moon, the tomb. He sits with the east to his back, his face to the stones in the womb, each an orange sun glowing, singeing his knees. He sighs a year's burden, drops sage on the...

A hymn sung off-key.(Poem)
January 1, 2004... The moon has grown gray and thin and casts a ghastly glint on us here in this holding pen wedged somewhere between earth and a heaven we're wary of though most Sundays we went to church, learned our catechism, tried to pray, and...

Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... Bible-Carrying Christians: Conservative Protestants and Social Power By David Harrington Watt Oxford University Press 2002, $29.95 Though a life-long Roman Catholic and an ardent feminist, in the mid-1980s I began theological...

The wounded healer.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... THE WOUNDED HEALER Lost in America: A Journey With My Father By Sherwin Nuland Knopf, 2003. 212pp. $24.00 Readers of Sherwin Nuland's creepily powerful How We Die: Reflections on Life's Final Chapter (1994) will have noticed a...

The ultimacy of death.(Book Review)
January 1, 2004... THE ULTIMACY OF DEATH Mortalism: Readings on the Meaning of Life Peter Heinegg, ed. Prometheus Books 2003 $23.00 (paper) Belief in immortality tugs at the human heart. In the earliest burial grounds we find remnants of...