Inventing New Beginnings : On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism.

Inventing New Beginnings : On the Idea of Renaissance in Modern Judaism.

An inquiry into the meaning of "renaissance" in modern Jewish thought, its place in the philosophical tradition of the West, and its moral possibilities.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Biemann, Asher
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Palo Alto : Stanford University Press, 2008.
Subjects:
1800-1999
Jews > Germany > History > 1800-1933 > Historiography.
Jews > Germany > History > 1933-1945 > Historiography.
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 19th century.
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Jews > Cultural assimilation > Germany.
Jews > Cultural assimilation
Jews > Historiography
Jews > Intellectual life
Germany
History
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Table of Contents:
  • Thinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity ; Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory ; Turning: transformations into the open
  • Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection ; The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re- )turn( -ing) to/of tradition ; The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.

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