Resisting History
Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought
Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ill…
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-4008-3256-9
- EAN: 9781400832569
- Produktnummer: 35679928
- Verlag: Canongate Books
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
- Seitenangabe: 269 S.
- Plattform: EPUB
- Masse: 2'553 KB
- Abbildungen: 5 halftones.
- Reihenbandnummer: 36
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David N. Myers
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