Salvation through Spinoza : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany / / by David J. Wertheim.
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 the...
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| Superior document: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series, v. 21 |
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| Year of Publication: | 2011 |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Jewish and Christian perspectives series ;
v. 21. |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (244 p.) |
| Notes: | Description based upon print version of record. |
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| Summary: | 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. |
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| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 1283280752 9786613280756 9004209212 |
| ISSN: | 1388-2074 ; |
| Hierarchical level: | Monograph |
| Statement of Responsibility: | by David J. Wertheim. |