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Stephane Moses and
Barbara Harshav (trans)
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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Stanford Univ Pr
Publication date
December 11, 2008
Pages
193
Binding
Paperback
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780804741170
ISBN-10
0804741174
Dimensions
0.50 by 6.25 by 9.25 in.
Weight
0.70 lbs.
Original list price
$25.95
Other format details
university press
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In The Angel of History, Mosès looks at three Jewish philosophersâFranz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholemâwho formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress. Instead, they imagined history as discontinuous, made of moments that form no totality but whose ruptures are both more significantâand more promisingâthan any apparent homogeneity.
Their direct experience of the twentieth century's great upheavals led these three thinkers to abandon the old models of causality that had previously accounted for human experience, and their cultural and religious background allowed them to turn to the Jewish experience of history. Jewish messianism always had to confront the experience of catastrophe, deception, and failure. Mosès shows how this tradition informed a genuine Jewish conception of history in which redemption mayâor may notâoccur at any moment, giving a new chance for hope by locating utopia in the heart of the present.
Their direct experience of the twentieth century's great upheavals led these three thinkers to abandon the old models of causality that had previously accounted for human experience, and their cultural and religious background allowed them to turn to the Jewish experience of history. Jewish messianism always had to confront the experience of catastrophe, deception, and failure. Mosès shows how this tradition informed a genuine Jewish conception of history in which redemption mayâor may notâoccur at any moment, giving a new chance for hope by locating utopia in the heart of the present.
Editions
Hardcover
With Stephane Moses |
from Stanford Univ Pr (December 11, 2008)
9780804741163 | details & prices | 193 pages | 6.50 × 9.50 × 0.75 in. | 0.96 lbs | List price $65.00
Paperback
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With Stephane Moses |
from Stanford Univ Pr (December 11, 2008)
9780804741170 | details & prices | 193 pages | 6.25 × 9.25 × 0.50 in. | 0.70 lbs | List price $25.95
About: In The Angel of History, Mosès looks at three Jewish philosophersâFranz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholemâwho formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress.
About: In The Angel of History, Mosès looks at three Jewish philosophersâFranz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholemâwho formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress.
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