Afterlife of Moses - Exile, Democracy, Renewal

"In The Afterlife of Moses, Steinberg addresses the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics, of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. Motivated in part by this recent period of reactionary insurgency in the US, Europe, and Israel, this work of intellectual history articulates the way in which a critique of myths of origin as a principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship has equal relevance in these places and equal fragility"--

List of contents

Introduction: Introduction

1. Moses and Modernism

2. Under Lincoln's Eyes

3. Hannah Arendt Crosses the Atlantic

4. Yaron Ezrahi: Democracy and the Post-Epic Nation

About the author

Michael P. Steinberg is the Barnaby Conrad and Mary Critchfield Keeney Professor of History, and Professor of Music and German Studies at Brown University. His recent books include The Trouble with Wagner (2018) and the coedited volume Makers of Jewish Modernity (2016), which won the National Jewish Book Award for nonfiction.

Product details

• Authors: Michael Steinberg
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 31.07.2022
• EAN: 9781503631144
• ISBN: 978-1-5036-3114-4
• No. of pages: 240
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subject: Humanities, art, music > Linguistics and literary studies > General and comparative literary studies