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Beyond the Border
Steven Aschheim
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Geisteswissenschaften, Kunst, Musik / Geschichte
Beschreibung
The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks to explain this phenomenon and analyze how the German-Jewish legacy has continuingly permeated wider modes of Western thought and sensibility, and why these émigrés occupy an increasingly iconic place in contemporary society.
Steven Aschheim traces the odyssey of a fascinating group of German-speaking Zionists--among them Martin Buber and Hans Kohn--who recognized the moral dilemmas of Jewish settlement in pre-Israel Palestine and sought a binationalist solution to the Arab-Israel conflict. He explores how German-Jewish émigré historians like Fritz Stern and George Mosse created a new kind of cultural history written against the background of their exile from Nazi Germany and in implicit tension with postwar German social historians. And finally, he examines the reasons behind the remarkable contemporary canonization of these Weimar intellectuals--from Arendt to Strauss--within Western academic and cultural life.
Beyond the Border is about more than the physical act of departure. It also points to the pioneering ways these émigrés questioned normative cognitive boundaries and have continued to play a vital role in addressing the predicaments that engage and perplex us today.
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Fritz Fischer, Postmodernism, Tom Segev, Franz Rosenzweig, Nancy Fraser, Existentialism, Peter Gay, Orthodox Judaism, Brit Shalom (political organization), Arthur A. Cohen, Romanticism, Counter-Enlightenment, Herbert Marcuse, Letter to His Father, Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Jews, Antinomy, Nazism, Leo Strauss, Max Weber, Max Brod, Hermann Cohen, Critique, Racism, Arthur Schopenhauer, Hans Jonas, Karl Jaspers, Raul Hilberg, Sonderweg, Hans Rothfels, Sensibility, Zionism, Theodor W. Adorno, Walter Benjamin, George Mosse, Leonard Krieger, Eduard Bernstein, E. P. Thompson, Ralph Manheim, Gershom Scholem, Judaism, Rosenzweig, Jewish mysticism, Gerhard Ritter, Stereotypes of Jews, The Philosopher, Hilary Putnam, Kurt Tucholsky, Religion, Modernity, Paul Celan, Allan Bloom, Ian Kershaw, Superiority (short story), Liberalism, Kuzari, Bildung, Adam Michnik, Hans Mommsen, Brit shalom (naming ceremony), Reform Judaism, Walther Rathenau, E. H. Carr, Scholem, Arabs, Imperialism, Fritz Stern, Jacob Talmon, Norbert Elias