Title: At the edges of liberalism : junctions of European, German and Jewish history /
Authors: Aschheim, Steven E., 1942-
Publisher: Palgrave Macmillan,
Year: 2012
Subjects: Jews Germany History; Jews Germany Politics and government; Jews Germany Intellectual life.; Liberalism Germany History; Jews Cultural assimilation Germany.; History; Judaism; Religion History; History, Modern; Europe History.; Europe, Central History.; World history; Germany Ethnic relations.; Germany Social conditions
Abstract: 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.
Contents: Icons Beyond the Border: The German-Jewish Intellectual Legacy at the Beginning of the Twenty First Century -- The Modern Jewish Experience and the Entangled Web of Orientalism -- Bildung in Palestine: Zionism, Bi-nationalism and the Strains of German-Jewish Humanism -- Hannah Arendt: Jewishness at the Edges -- The Metaphysical Psychologist: On the Life and Letters of Gershom Scholem -- Comrade Klemperer: Communism, Liberalism and Jewishness in the DDR -- Locating Nazi Evil: The Contrasting Visions of Gershom Scholem, Hannah Hannah Arendt and Victor Klemperer -- The Bonfires of Berlin: Historical and Contemporary Reflections on the Nazi Book Burnings -- Imaging the Absolute: Mapping Western Conceptions of Evil -- Tempering Evil at the Edges: The (Ambiguous) Political Economy of Empathy -- Towards a Phenomenology of the Jewish Intellectual: The German and French Cases Compared -- Reflections on Theatricality, Identity and the Modern Jewish Experience -- Between Rights, Respectability, and Resistance: Reframing the German-Jewish Experience.