Alfred Dreyfus : man, milieu, mentality and Midrash / / Norman Simms

• Autore: Simms Norman Toby
• Pubblicazione: Boston, : Academic Studies Press, 2012
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (414 p.)
• Disciplina: 944.0812092
• Soggetto topico: Trials (Treason) - Political aspects - France; Antisemitism - France - History - 19th century; Midrash
• Soggetto geografico: France History Third Republic, 1870-1940
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Table of Contents -- Prologue -- Chapter One: Introduction -- Chapter Two: Bodies of Evidence -- Chapter Three: The Phantasmagoria of a Secular Midrash -- Epilogue -- Bibliography -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: This groundbreaking book focuses on Alfred Dreyfus the man, with emphasis placed on his own writings, including his recently published prison workbooks and his letters to his wife Lucie. Through close reading of these documents, a much more sensitive, intellectual, and Jewish man is revealed than was previously suspected. He and Lucie, through their family connections and mutual loyalty, were interested in and supported the artistic, scientific, philosophical and historical movements that formed their Parisian milieu. But as an Alsatian Jew, Alfred was also critical of many aspects of technological and ideological developments, making his mentality one of skepticism as well as idealism. Norman Simms addresses the way Dreyfus perceived the world, challenged many of its assumptions and contextualized it in the style of a rabbinical midrash, a process that created what Alfred called a “phantasmagoria” of the Affair that bears his name, and also interprets the man, his milieu and his mentality in the style of a midrash, a creative, transformative reading.
• Titolo autorizzato: Alfred Dreyfus
• ISBN: 1-61811-041-1
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910462181203321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.