LEADER 04118nam 2200757 a 450 001 9910821779603321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a1-4008-3765-0 010 $a1-282-96478-X 010 $a9786612964787 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400837656 035 $a(CKB)2670000000207280 035 $a(EBL)664572 035 $a(OCoLC)705945740 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000469637 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11330400 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000469637 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10511168 035 $a(PQKB)11775420 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36796 035 $a(DE-B1597)446633 035 $a(OCoLC)979742123 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400837656 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL664572 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10443120 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL296478 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC664572 035 $a(dli)HEB30740 035 $a(MiU)MIU01000000000000012317794 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000207280 100 $a20080208d2009 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aGod interrupted $eheresy and the European imagination between the world wars /$fBenjamin Lazier 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPrinceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$dc2009 215 $a1 online resource (271 p.) 300 $aIncludes index. 311 $a0-691-13670-X 311 $a0-691-15541-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. ) and index. 327 $aThe 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. 330 $aCould 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. 606 $aGod (Judaism)$xHistory of doctrines$y20th century 606 $aJewish philosophy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aHeresy$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aPantheism$xHistory$y20th century 606 $aGnosticism$xHistory$y20th century 607 $aEurope$xIntellectual life$y20th century 615 0$aGod (Judaism)$xHistory of doctrines 615 0$aJewish philosophy$xHistory 615 0$aHeresy$xHistory 615 0$aPantheism$xHistory 615 0$aGnosticism$xHistory 676 $a296.3/110904 700 $aLazier$b Benjamin$f1971-$01231949 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910821779603321 996 $aGod interrupted$92860530 997 $aUNINA