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Moses Hess and Modern Jewish Identity

English · Hardback

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Jewish Literature and Culture-Alvin H. Rosenfeld, editorPublished with the generous support of the Koret Foundation

List of contents










Acknowledgments

1. Hess and Modern Jewish Identity

Hess and Modern Jewish Identity

Categories of Modern Identity

Outline of Chapters

2. Conceptions of Self and Identity in Hess's Early Works and Rome and Jerusalem

Rome and Jerusalem as Socialist and Zionist Manifesto

Conceptions of Self and Identity in Hess's Socialist and Scientific Works

Conceptions of Self and Identity in Rome and Jerusalem

3. Hess's "Return" to Judaism and Narrative Identity

Discontinuity and Resolution in Hess's "Return" to Judaism

The Reading of Hess's "Return" as Resolution

Narrative Identity

4. Inescapable Frameworks: Emotions, Race, and the Rhetoric of Jewish Identity

Evocative Language in Rome and Jerusalem

Spinoza as Model for Passionate Philosophy

Hess's Racial Theory

Inescapable Frameworks

5. Traditions and Scars: Hess's Critique of Reform and Orthodox Judaism

Identity and Difference: Hess's Critique of Bildung and Jewish Reform

Traditions: Race and Scars

Identity and Creativity: Hess's Critique of Jewish Orthodoxy

6.Innocence and Experience in Rome and Jerusalem

Notes

Bibliography

Index


About the author










Ken Koltun-Fromm is Assistant Professor of Religion at Haverford College. He publishes in the field of modern Jewish thought and German studies.


Summary

Offers a radical interpretation of the writings of Moses Hess, a nineteenth-century German Jewish intellectual figure who was at times religious and secular, traditional and modern, practical and theoretical, socialist and nationalist. This study contributes to the diverse fields of Jewish history, philosophy, Zionism, and religious studies.

Product details

Authors Ken Koltun-Fromm, Koltun-Fromm Ken
Publisher Indiana University Press
 
Languages English
Product format Hardback
Released 31.07.2001
 
EAN 9780253339348
ISBN 978-0-253-33934-8
No. of pages 194
Dimensions 162 mm x 242 mm x 18 mm
Weight 499 g
Series Jewish Literature and Culture
Jewish Literature & Culture (H
Indiana University Press
Jewish Literature and Culture
Jewish Literature & Culture (H
Subjects Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism
Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Miscellaneous

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