Salvation through Spinoza : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany /

Salvation through Spinoza : a study of Jewish culture in Weimar Germany /

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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Main Author: Wertheim, David J.

Format: eBook

Language: English

Published: Leiden : Brill, 2011.

Series: Jewish and Christian Perspectives Series 21.
Biblical Studies, Ancient Near East and Early Christianity E-Books Online, Collection 2012, ISBN: 9789004223226.

Subjects:

Spinoza, Benedictus de, > 1632-1677 > Influence.
Jews > Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Jews > Germany > Identity > History > 20th century.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Anthropology / Cultural.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Discrimination & Race Relations.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Ethnic Studies / General.
SOCIAL SCIENCE / Minority Studies.
Germany > Intellectual life > 20th century.
Germany > History > 1918-1933.

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Call Number: DS134.22 .W47 2011

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Table of Contents:
  • Preliminary Material /
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  • Chapter One Celebrating Spinoza /
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  • Chapter Two Jew and German /
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  • Chapter Three Integration and Authenticity /
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  • Chapter Four Historicism and Messianism /
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  • Chapter Five Rejecting Spinoza's Celebration /
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  • Chapter Six The Signature of the Era /
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  • Literature /
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  • Index /
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