Inventing New Beginnings - On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism

Zusatztext "This is an ambitious book of immense complexity . . . certainly worthy of critical reflection." Informationen zum Autor Asher D. Biemann is Assistant Professor for Modern Jewish Thought and Intellectual History at the University of Virginia. He is the editor of The Martin Buber Reader (2002) and the author of a critical edition of Martin Buber's Sprachphilosophische Schriften (2003). Klappentext An inquiry into the meaning of "renaissance" in modern Jewish thought, its place in the philosophical tradition of the West, and its moral possibilities. Zusammenfassung Inventing New Beginnings is the first book-length study to examine the conceptual underpinnings of the "Jewish Renaissance," or "return" to Judaism, that captured much of German-speaking Jewry between 1890 and 1938. The book addresses two very fundamental, yet hitherto strangely understated, questions: What did the term "renaissance" actually mean to the intellectuals and ideologues of the "Jewish Renaissance," and how did this understanding relate to wider currents in European intellectual and cultural history of the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries? It also addresses the larger question of how we can contemplate "renaissance" as a mode of thought that is conditioned by the consciousness and experience of modernity and that extends to our present time.

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• Authors: Asher Biemann, Asher D Biemann, Asher D. Biemann
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Hardback
• Released: 01.01.2009
• EAN: 9780804760416
• ISBN: 978-0-8047-6041-6
• No. of pages: 440
• Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His; Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture; Stanford Studies in Jewish His
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Religion/theology > Judaism; Social sciences, law, business > Ethnology > Ethnology