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Resisting history : historicism and its discontents in German-Jewish thought /

"Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best under...

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Bibliographic Details
Call Number:Libro Electrónico
Main Author: Myers, David N.
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2003.
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Jewish historicism and its discontents: an introduction
  • Hermann Cohen and the problem of history at the fin de siècle
  • Franz Rosenzweig and the rise of theological anti-historicism
  • Anti-historicism and the theological-political predicament in Weimar Germany: the case of Leo Strauss
  • Isaac Breuer and the Jewish path to metageschichte
  • From conclusion to opening: a word on influence, German Jews, and the cultural history of ideas.