Angel of History - Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem

Zusatztext " The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem , which first appeared in France in 1992 but has just been published in English by Stanford University Press (in a translation by Barbara Harshav), is a brilliantly lucid introduction to the work of these three figures... The Angel of History offers an introduction to some of the most brilliant and influential Jewish thinkers of the last century. Anyone who is interested in how German Judaism responded, at the highest and most passionate levels, to its imminent destruction should start by reading Stephane Moses." Informationen zum Autor The late philosopher and writer Stéphane Mosès emigrated to Israel in 1969, where he became the first head of the German department at the Hebrew University and founded the Franz Rosenzweig Research Center for German-Jewish Literature and Cultural History. He also played a considerable role in the reconstruction of French Judaism after the Shoah. Klappentext In The Angel of History, Mosès looks at three philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany. Zusammenfassung In The Angel of History, Moses looks at three philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem-who formulated a new vision of history informed by Jewish messianism in 1920s Germany.

Product details

• Authors: Stephane Moses, Stephane/ Harshav Moses, Stéphane Mosès, Stphane Moss, Moses Stephane
• Assisted by: Barbara Harshav (Translation)
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 11.12.2008
• EAN: 9780804741163
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-4116-3
• No. of pages: 208
• Series: Cultural Memory in the Present; Cultural Memory in the Present
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > Miscellaneous; Non-fiction book > History > Miscellaneous