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Record Nr.

UNINA9910778527703321

Autore

Biemann Asher D

Titolo

Inventing new beginnings [[electronic resource] ] : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / / Asher D. Biemann

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, c2009

ISBN

0-8047-7045-X

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (638 p.)

Collana

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Disciplina

305.892/4043

Soggetti

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

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

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.

Sommario/riassunto

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