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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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Brit Shalom (political organization), Hermann Cohen, Scholem, Herbert Marcuse, Racism, Stereotypes of Jews, Hannah Arendt, Martin Buber, Sensibility, Hans Mommsen, Liberalism, Arthur A. Cohen, George Mosse, Antinomy, Brit shalom (naming ceremony), Jacob Talmon, Nancy Fraser, Norbert Elias, Rosenzweig, Bildung, Jewish mysticism, Fritz Fischer, Imperialism, Max Brod, Allan Bloom, Eduard Bernstein, Zionism, Adam Michnik, Leonard Krieger, Sonderweg, Walther Rathenau, Franz Rosenzweig, Hilary Putnam, Fritz Stern, Orthodox Judaism, Walter Benjamin, Paul Celan, Superiority (short story), Nazism, E. H. Carr, Judaism, Letter to His Father, Arthur Schopenhauer, Ian Kershaw, Romanticism, Tom Segev, Arabs, Hans Jonas, Karl Jaspers, Raul Hilberg, Religion, Postmodernism, Jews, The Philosopher, Gershom Scholem, Modernity, Peter Gay, Kurt Tucholsky, Hans Rothfels, Critique, E. P. Thompson, Theodor W. Adorno, Ralph Manheim, Max Weber, Kuzari, Leo Strauss, Gerhard Ritter, Reform Judaism, Counter-Enlightenment, Existentialism