04118nam 2200757 a 450 991082177960332120200520144314.01-4008-3765-01-282-96478-X978661296478710.1515/9781400837656(CKB)2670000000207280(EBL)664572(OCoLC)705945740(SSID)ssj0000469637(PQKBManifestationID)11330400(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469637(PQKBWorkID)10511168(PQKB)11775420(MdBmJHUP)muse36796(DE-B1597)446633(OCoLC)979742123(DE-B1597)9781400837656(Au-PeEL)EBL664572(CaPaEBR)ebr10443120(CaONFJC)MIL296478(MiAaPQ)EBC664572(dli)HEB30740(MiU)MIU01000000000000012317794(EXLCZ)99267000000020728020080208d2009 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrGod interrupted heresy and the European imagination between the world wars /Benjamin LazierCourse BookPrinceton, N.J. Princeton University Pressc20091 online resource (271 p.)Includes index.0-691-13670-X 0-691-15541-0 Includes bibliographical references (p. ) and index.The Gnostic return -- God interrupted: Romans in Weimar -- Overcoming Gnosticism -- After Auschwitz, earth -- Pantheism revisited -- The Pantheism controversy -- From God to nature -- Natural right and Judaism -- Redemption through sin -- Jewish Gnosticism -- Raising Pantheism -- From nihilism to nothingness -- Scholem's golem.Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era. God Interrupted also provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars. Hans Jonas developed a philosophy of biology that inspired European Greens and bioethicists the world over. Leo Strauss became one of the most important and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion, radically recast what it means to be a Jew. Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art. They alert us to the abiding salience of the divine to Europeans between the wars and beyond--even among those for whom God was long missing or dead.God (Judaism)History of doctrines20th centuryJewish philosophyHistory20th centuryHeresyHistory20th centuryPantheismHistory20th centuryGnosticismHistory20th centuryEuropeIntellectual life20th centuryGod (Judaism)History of doctrinesJewish philosophyHistoryHeresyHistoryPantheismHistoryGnosticismHistory296.3/110904Lazier Benjamin1971-1231949MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910821779603321God interrupted2860530UNINA