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Papers by LEONARD KOFF
BRILL eBooks, 2012
The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link betwee... more The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present-mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume - from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richard Sogliuzzo.
We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent ... more We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent discussions of the nature of time, including discussions among those who argue for, or theorize, or imagine, or experience notime in a non-place. For Aristotle, time does not exist without change: "So just as there would be no time if there were no distinction between this 'now' and that 'now,' but it were always the same 'now': in the same way there appears to be no time between two 'nows' when we fail to distinguish between them."1 Indeed, for Aristotle, time depends on change occurring or on change that has occurred, both of which mean that an interval of time has elapsed, whether or not we realize this.2
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1992
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 7, 2020
The Medieval translator, 2018
The Medieval translator, 1989
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1992
Kurdish Art and Identity, 2020
The Medieval Translator, 2018
The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link betwee... more The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present-mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume - from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richar...
Time: Sense, Space, Structure, 2016
We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent ... more We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent discussions of the nature of time, including discussions among those who argue for, or theorize, or imagine, or experience notime in a non-place. For Aristotle, time does not exist without change: "So just as there would be no time if there were no distinction between this 'now' and that 'now,' but it were always the same 'now': in the same way there appears to be no time between two 'nows' when we fail to distinguish between them."1 Indeed, for Aristotle, time depends on change occurring or on change that has occurred, both of which mean that an interval of time has elapsed, whether or not we realize this.2
List of Figures 0.1 The Astronomical Clock by Zacharie-Nicholas-Amé-Joseph Raingo. c. 1820-1825 1... more List of Figures 0.1 The Astronomical Clock by Zacharie-Nicholas-Amé-Joseph Raingo. c. 1820-1825 17 1.1 Synchronization of various calendars from around the Hellenistic world to the Roman month of May (left-hand side) in Vaticanus graecus 1291 (s. viii), f. 12r 55 1.2 Layout of the Chronicle of Eusebios-Jerome synchronizing Moses and Cecrops the Athenian Merton College ms 315ff. 30v-31r 55 1.3 The Incarnation of Christ as the Kingdom of the Jews comes under the Roman
Mobs, 2012
Elias Canetti argues that as a collection of people the crowd has an existence that is not define... more Elias Canetti argues that as a collection of people the crowd has an existence that is not defined by its ideology - a crowd is a physical reality before it has ideological intent. The analogy, which Canetti works out in monumental theoretical, historical, and anthropological detail in his book, Crowds and Power , is meant to support the argument that crowds are natural human formations. Canetti's crowd template reveals a crowd's four essential crowd attributes - growth, equality, density, and direction. This chapter offers the crowd model from Exodus, an example of the distinction between power and authority, where the leader is merely, in ontological terms, an epiphenomenon. The revelation at Sinai illustrates how an authority does not become a visible presence and, in this way, lets us refigure the relationship between leader and authority that Canetti's historical reality could not allow him to do. Moses in Exodus does not become a demagogue. Keywords:authority; Crowd; Crowds and Power ; Elias Canetti; epiphenomenon; Exodus; Moses; Power
Cicero Refused to Die, 2013
BRILL eBooks, 2012
The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link betwee... more The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present-mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume - from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richard Sogliuzzo.
We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent ... more We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent discussions of the nature of time, including discussions among those who argue for, or theorize, or imagine, or experience notime in a non-place. For Aristotle, time does not exist without change: "So just as there would be no time if there were no distinction between this 'now' and that 'now,' but it were always the same 'now': in the same way there appears to be no time between two 'nows' when we fail to distinguish between them."1 Indeed, for Aristotle, time depends on change occurring or on change that has occurred, both of which mean that an interval of time has elapsed, whether or not we realize this.2
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1992
De Gruyter eBooks, Sep 7, 2020
The Medieval translator, 2018
The Medieval translator, 1989
Studies in the Age of Chaucer, 1992
Kurdish Art and Identity, 2020
The Medieval Translator, 2018
The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link betwee... more The topic of mobs has resonances in a remarkable number of disciplines and provides a link between past and present-mobs are clearly of much importance today. The idea of mobs provides the context for all the essays and topics in this volume - from Heraclitus to the writings of Elias Canetti to the notion of internet mobs. The essays here speak to the complex nature of the mob: its defining characteristics and the varying consequences of its behavior. Mobs as a book brings wide-ranging clarity to a topic that touches such disciplines as medieval studies, literature, musicology, theology and philosophy, history, social theory, the development of the early university, and theatre. Contributors are (in order within the volume): Leonard M. Koff, Ben Schomakers, Bernard S. Bachrach, Nancy van Deusen, Paul W. Knoll, Charlotte Bauer, Andrew Galloway, Robert W. Hanning, Terence Tunberg, Peter Howard, Cornelia Oefelein, Teofilo Ruiz, Richard Taruskin, David B. Rosen, Aino Paasonen and Richar...
Time: Sense, Space, Structure, 2016
We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent ... more We begin with Aristotle, a good place to begin. His understanding of time grounds all subsequent discussions of the nature of time, including discussions among those who argue for, or theorize, or imagine, or experience notime in a non-place. For Aristotle, time does not exist without change: "So just as there would be no time if there were no distinction between this 'now' and that 'now,' but it were always the same 'now': in the same way there appears to be no time between two 'nows' when we fail to distinguish between them."1 Indeed, for Aristotle, time depends on change occurring or on change that has occurred, both of which mean that an interval of time has elapsed, whether or not we realize this.2
List of Figures 0.1 The Astronomical Clock by Zacharie-Nicholas-Amé-Joseph Raingo. c. 1820-1825 1... more List of Figures 0.1 The Astronomical Clock by Zacharie-Nicholas-Amé-Joseph Raingo. c. 1820-1825 17 1.1 Synchronization of various calendars from around the Hellenistic world to the Roman month of May (left-hand side) in Vaticanus graecus 1291 (s. viii), f. 12r 55 1.2 Layout of the Chronicle of Eusebios-Jerome synchronizing Moses and Cecrops the Athenian Merton College ms 315ff. 30v-31r 55 1.3 The Incarnation of Christ as the Kingdom of the Jews comes under the Roman
Mobs, 2012
Elias Canetti argues that as a collection of people the crowd has an existence that is not define... more Elias Canetti argues that as a collection of people the crowd has an existence that is not defined by its ideology - a crowd is a physical reality before it has ideological intent. The analogy, which Canetti works out in monumental theoretical, historical, and anthropological detail in his book, Crowds and Power , is meant to support the argument that crowds are natural human formations. Canetti's crowd template reveals a crowd's four essential crowd attributes - growth, equality, density, and direction. This chapter offers the crowd model from Exodus, an example of the distinction between power and authority, where the leader is merely, in ontological terms, an epiphenomenon. The revelation at Sinai illustrates how an authority does not become a visible presence and, in this way, lets us refigure the relationship between leader and authority that Canetti's historical reality could not allow him to do. Moses in Exodus does not become a demagogue. Keywords:authority; Crowd; Crowds and Power ; Elias Canetti; epiphenomenon; Exodus; Moses; Power
Cicero Refused to Die, 2013