1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971728703321

Autore

Golomb Jacob

Titolo

In search of authenticity : from Kierkegaard to Camus / / Jacob Golomb

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York, : Routledge, 1995

ISBN

1-134-81273-6

1-134-81274-4

1-280-33504-1

0-585-45698-4

0-203-00679-8

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (233 p.)

Collana

Problems of modern European thought

Disciplina

179/.9

Soggetti

Authenticity (Philosophy)

Existential ethics

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 (p. 207-211) and index.

Nota di contenuto

IN SEARCH OF AUTHENTICITY From Kierkegaard to Camus; Copyright; Contents; Editors' Foreword; Acknowledgements; Introduction; 1 Authenticity, sincerity and honesty; 2 Authenticity, literature and irony; 3 Kierkegaard's ironic ladder to authentic faith; 4 Nietzsche's pathos of authenticity; 5 Heidegger's ontology of authenticity; 6 Sartre: from phenomenological ontology to psychoanalysis and politics; 7 Camus's return to authentic human morality; Conclusion: Authenticity and Ethics; Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Great philosophers such as Kierkegaard, Nietzsche and Sartre have clearly been preoccupied by the possibility of authenticity.  In this study, Jacob Golomb looks closely at the literature and writings of these philosophers in his analysis of their ethics. Golomb's writings shows his passionate commitment to the quest for the authenticity - particularly in our climate of post-modern scepticism.  He argues that existentialism is all the more pertinent and relevant today when set against the general disillusionment which characterises the late twentieth century. This book is invaluable re



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910959249803321

Titolo

Jewish masculinities : German Jews, gender, and history / / edited by Benjamin Maria Baader, Sharon Gillerman, and Paul Lerner

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bloomington, Ind., : Indiana University Press, 2012

ISBN

1-280-69651-6

9786613673473

0-253-00221-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (255 p.)

Altri autori (Persone)

BaaderBenjamin Maria

GillermanSharon <1960->

LernerPaul Frederick

Disciplina

305.892/4043

Soggetti

Jewish men - Germany - History

Jews - Germany - History

Jews - Germany - Identity

Masculinity - Germany

Subculture - Germany

Germany Ethnic relations

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

Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction: German Jews, Gender, and History; 1. Respectability Tested: Male Ideals, Sexuality, and Honor in Early Modern Ashkenazi Jewry; 2. Jewish Difference and the Feminine Spirit of Judaism in Mid-Nineteenth-Century Germany; 3. Moral, Clean Men of the Jewish Faith: Jewish Rituals and Their Male Practitioners, 1843-1914; 4. A Soft Hero: Male Jewish Identity in Imperial Germany through the Autobiography of Aron Liebeck; 5. Performing Masculinity: Jewish Students and the Honor Code at German Universities

6. Whose Body Is It Anyway?: Hermaphrodites, Gays, and Jews in N. O. Body's Germany7. Toward a Theory of the Modern Hebrew Handshake: The Conduct of Muscle Judaism; 8. Friedrich Gundolf and Jewish Conservative Bohemianism in the Weimar Republic; 9. A Kinder Gentler Strongman?: Siegmund Breitbart in Eastern Europe; 10. Family Matters:



German Jewish Masculinities among Nazi Era Refugees; List of Contributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; Z

Sommario/riassunto

Stereotyped as delicate and feeble intellectuals, Jewish men in German-speaking lands in fact developed a rich and complex spectrum of male norms, models, and behaviors. Jewish Masculinities explores conceptions and experiences of masculinity among Jews in Germany from the 16th through the late 20th century as well as emigrants to North America, Palestine, and Israel. The volume examines the different worlds of students, businessmen, mohels, ritual slaughterers, rabbis, performers, and others, shedding new light on the challenge for Jewish men of balancing German citizenship and cultural af