The Legacy of Liberal Judaism
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
9781782380078 (ISBN)
It is the first comprehensive analysis of liberal Jewish thought and its legacyt in the twentieth and twenty first centuries.
It is the first book to analyze Ernst Cassirer as a Jewish thinker.
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.
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.
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Chapter 1. ‘This Man of Our Destiny’: Moses Mendelssohn, Nathan the Wise, and the emergence of a Liberal Jewish Ethos
Chapter 2. Diasporic Visions: the emergence of Liberal Judaism
Chapter 3. Abraham Geiger: Rabbi and Writer
Chapter 4. Hermann Cohen’s Prophetic Judaism
Chapter 5. Ernst Cassirer and the Ethical Legacy of Hermann Cohen
Chapter 6. Ernst Cassirer: The Enlightenment as Counter-History
Chapter 7. Hannah Arendt: The Task of the Historian
Chapter 8. Hannah Arendt: A Question of Character
Conclusion: The Legacies of Liberal Judaism
Bibliography
Index
| Erscheint lt. Verlag | 1.10.2013 |
|---|---|
| Zusatzinfo | Bibliography; Index |
| Verlagsort | Oxford |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 503 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Philosophie |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien | |
| ISBN-13 | 9781782380078 / 9781782380078 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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