Resisting History : : Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought / / David N. Myers.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Princeton University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
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Place / Publishing House:Princeton, NJ : : Princeton University Press, , [2022]
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Year of Publication:2022
Language:English
Series:Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World ; 36
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Physical Description:1 online resource (269 p.) :; 5 halftones.
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • ACKNOWLEDGMENTS
  • A NOTE ON THE COVER
  • INTRODUCTION
  • CHAPTER ONE Jewish Historicism and Its Discontents: An Introduction
  • CHAPTER TWO Hermann Cohen and the Problem of History at the Fin de Siècle
  • CHAPTER THREE Franz Rosenzweig and the Rise of Theological Anti-Historicism
  • CHAPTER FOUR Anti-Historicism and the Theological-Political Predicament in Weimar Germany: The Case of Leo Strauss
  • CHAPTER FIVE Isaac Breuer and the Jewish Path to Metageschichte
  • CHAPTER SIX From Conclusion to Opening: A Word on Influence, German Jews, and the Cultural History of Ideas
  • NOTES
  • BIBLIOGRAPHY
  • INDEX