Salvation through Spinoza [[electronic resource] ] : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany / / by David J. Wertheim

• Autore: Wertheim David J
• Pubblicazione: Leiden ; ; Boston, : Brill, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (244 p.)
• Disciplina: 305.892/404309042
• Soggetto topico: Jews - Germany - Intellectual life - 20th century; Jews - Germany - Identity - History - 20th century
• Soggetto geografico: Germany Intellectual life 20th century; Germany History 1918-1933
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Celebrating Spinoza -- Jews and Germans -- Integration and authenticity -- Historicism and messianism -- Rejecting Spinoza's celebration -- 'The signature of the era' literature.
• Sommario/riassunto: Despite his reputation as a heretic, Baruch Spinoza was one of the major heroes of the Jewish cultural Renaissance in Weimar Germany. This study traces Weimar Jewry's infatuation with Spinoza as it was manifested in scholarship, the popular press, and novels. It tells of how Jews, who found themselves oscillating between the social pressures to both assimilate and remain authentic, sought refuge in a thinker who epitomized both the rationality and liberalism of the Weimar Republic’s enlightened defenders as well as the mysticism of its neo-romanticist challengers. In recapturing this forgotten chapter in the history of Spinozism this book sheds an original light on Weimar Germany’s reknown Jewish culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: Salvation through Spinoza
• ISBN: 1-283-28075-2; 9786613280756; 90-04-20921-2
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910457190403321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Jewish and Christian perspectives series ; ; v. 21.