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"We must be grateful to Annette Aronowicz not only for translating and thus bringing to our attention these beautiful and profound pages by Charles Péguy on Bernard-Lazare's unsung moral and religious heroism in the Dreyfus Affair, but also for highlighting the genuinely timeless importance of his works, which is to say, their continued relevance to the questions of ethics and justice in our day. One concludes not simply better informed about certain persons and topics--such as Charles Péguy, Bernard-Lazare, Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, Incarnation, Hope, Time, and Eternity--but moved, deepened, and bettered."--Richard A. Cohen, University of North Carolina at Charlotte
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Annette Aronowicz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She is the author of Freedom from Ideology: Secrecy in Modern Expression and the translator of Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas.
Summary
This book examines a wide range of intellectual, ethical, and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy, on Bernard-Lazare, who was prominent during the Dreyfus Affair.
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“We must be grateful to Annette Aronowicz not only for translating and thus bringing to our attention these beautiful and profound pages by Charles Péguy on Bernard-Lazare’s unsung moral and religious heroism in the Dreyfus Affair, but also for highlighting the genuinely timeless importance of his works, which is to say, their continued relevance to the questions of ethics and justice in our day. One concludes not simply better informed about certain persons and topics—such as Charles Péguy, Bernard-Lazare, Franz Rosenzweig, Emmanuel Levinas, Incarnation, Hope, Time, and Eternity—but moved, deepened, and bettered.”—Richard A. Cohen,University of North Carolina at Charlotte
