At the Edges of Liberalism [electronic resource] : Junctions of European, German, and Jewish History /
Aschheim, S.author.
The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
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Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Permissions; 1 Introduction; Part 1 On the Edges of Liberalism; 2 Icons Beyond Their Borders: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty-First Century; 3 The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism; 4 Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Binationalism, and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism; Part 2 Three German Jews at the Junction; 5 Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges; 6 The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem
7 Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism, and Jewishness in the GDR: The Later Diaries, 1945-1959Part 3 Evil at the Edges; 8 Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Arendt, and Victor Klemperer; 9 The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings; 10 Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil; 11 The Ambiguous Political Economy of Empathy; Part 4 Encounters at the Junction: Jews and Western Culture; 12 Reflections on Insiders and Outsiders
13 Toward a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared14 Reflections on Theatricality, Identity, and the Modern Jewish Experience; 15 Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience; Afterword and Acknowledgments; Notes; Index
Includes bibliographical references and index.
The essays in this volume seek to confront some of the charged meeting points of European - especially German - and Jewish history. All, in one way or another, explore the entanglements, the intertwined moments of empathy and enmity, belonging and estrangement, creativity and destructiveness that occurred at these junctions.
Europe, Central—History.
Europe—History.
Religion—History.
Judaism.
History, Modern.
World history.
History of Germany and Central Europe.
European History.
History of Religion.
Judaism.
Modern History.
World History, Global and Transnational History.