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Autore: | Urban Martina |
Titolo: | Aesthetics of renewal [[electronic resource] ] : Martin Buber's early representation of Hasidism as kulturkritik / / Martina Urban |
Pubblicazione: | Chicago, : University of Chicago Press, 2008 |
Descrizione fisica: | 1 online resource (254 p.) |
Disciplina: | 296.8/332 |
Soggetto topico: | Hasidism |
Spiritual life - Judaism | |
Anthologies | |
Zionism | |
Soggetto non controllato: | hasidism, kulturkritik, judaism, mysticism, jewish, identity, religion, spirituality, revival, zionism, community, unity, diaspora, tradition, cultural memory, belonging, migration, nationalism, german romanticism, self sacrifice, redemption, devotion, immediacy, ecstasy, perception, language, lebensphilosophie, aesthetics, metaphysics, folklore, folk belief, sefer, ingathering, nonfiction |
Note generali: | Description based upon print version of record. |
Nota di bibliografia: | Includes bibliographical references (p. 217-227) and index. |
Nota di contenuto: | Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Abbreviations -- Introduction -- 1. Buber's Hermeneutic Horizon -- 2. The Anthology and the Jewish Renaissance -- 3. Zionist Anthologies -- 4. In Search of Collaborators -- 5. The Galician Circle of Elusive Collaborators -- 6. Ahad Ha'am's Theory of Culture Revised -- 7. Sprachkritik: The Crisis of Perception -- 8. Jewish Culture: Between Mystical Aesthetics and Lebensphilosophie -- 9. A Phenomenology of Hasidic Mysticism -- Conclusion -- Appendix: Buber's Sources for Die Legende des Baalschem -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index |
Sommario/riassunto: | Martin Buber's embrace of Hasidism at the start of the twentieth century was instrumental to the revival of this popular form of Jewish mysticism. Hoping to instigate a Jewish cultural and spiritual renaissance, he published a series of anthologies of Hasidic teachings written in German to introduce the tradition to a wide audience. In Aesthetics of Renewal, Martina Urban closely analyzes Buber's writings and sources to explore his interpretation of Hasidic spirituality as a form of cultural criticism. For Buber, Hasidic legends and teachings were n |
Titolo autorizzato: | Aesthetics of renewal |
ISBN: | 1-282-07040-1 |
9786612070402 | |
0-226-84273-8 | |
Formato: | Materiale a stampa |
Livello bibliografico | Monografia |
Lingua di pubblicazione: | Inglese |
Record Nr.: | 9910782809903321 |
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