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Ned Curthoys - Legacy of Liberal Judaism, Häftad

Häftad, Engelska, 2016

Legacy of Liberal Judaism

Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation

Av Ned Curthoys

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Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews. Arendt's indebtedness to liberal Jewish thinkers such as Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, and Ernst Cassirer has been obscured by her modernist posture and caustic critique of the assimilationism of her German-Jewish forebears. By reorienting our conception of Arendt as a profoundly secular thinker anchored in twentieth century political debates, we are led to rethink the philosophical, political, and ethical legacy of liberal Jewish discourse.
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  • Utgivningsdatum: 2016-02-19
  • Mått: 152 x 229 x 14 mm
  • Vikt: 365 g
  • Format: Häftad
  • Språk: Engelska
  • Antal sidor: 246
  • Förlag: Berghahn Books
  • ISBN: 9781785332166
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Ned Curthoys is a Senior Lecturer in English and Cultural Studies at the University of Western Australia. He has co-edited two edited collections, Edward Said: the Legacy of a Public-Intellectual (Melbourne University Press, 2007) and Representing Humanity in the Age of Enlightenment (Pickering and Chatto, 2013) and has contributed to journals including Theory and Event, Comparative Literature Studies, Intellectual History Review and Journal of Genocide Research.

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"Most readers will finish this work with a renewed appreciation of the continuing significance of the moral vision articulated by these exemplars of liberal Judaism." Choice

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