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Divided Passions

Author : Paul R. Mendes-Flohr
Publisher : Wayne State University Press
ISBN 13 : 9780814320303
Total Pages : 484 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (23 download)

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Download or read book Divided Passions written by Paul R. Mendes-Flohr and published by Wayne State University Press. This book was released on 1991 with total page 484 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Paul Mendes-Flohr is emerging as the leading Jewish intellectual historian of the present generation. In particular, he is responsible for a significant amount of the important and pertinent scholarship in the field of German-Jewish intellectual history. No one else is quite as intimately knowledgeable with this material, the ambiguous legacy of one of the most inventive and poignant episodes of creativity in the life of the Diaspora. Divided Passions is a collection of published and unpublished essays and articles by Paul Mendes-Flohr from the past decade. In a manner that underscores their continued relevance and significance, Mendes-Flohr writes about the problems that Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, Simon, Scholem and others tried to crystallize and resolve. Mendes-Flohr moves with effortless authority among the disciplines of theology, philosophy, literature, history, and sociology. Fitted with these interdisciplinary resources, he enriches his treatment of themes and figures in ways that exceed the scope, to say nothing of the execution, found in other literature. The book conveys a rare metaphysical depth, for questions of faith, identity, and Dasein explored by the intellectual figures of the past are also personal ones for the author as well. Mendes-Flohr's exceptional ability to keep this body of work alive and available provides an outstanding source of commentary on the subjects that dominate the agenda of modern Jewish studies.

Divided Passions

Author : Michelle Tisseyre
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781552630259
Total Pages : 350 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (32 download)

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Download or read book Divided Passions written by Michelle Tisseyre and published by . This book was released on 1999 with total page 350 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This richly imagined novel is set against a turbulent backdrop of the First World War, the anti-conscription riots in Quebec, the Roaring Twenties and the onset of the Great Depression. The heroine is the passionate, intelligent Jeanne Langlois, the only child of a powerful Quebec politician and his much younger wife. The story opens as Jeanne, a frail sixteen-year-old, arrives in the winter twilight at a convent in Saint-Boniface, Manitoba, more than 2000 kilometres from her home in Montreal. In a vain attempt to please her fanatically devout mother, Jeanne is trying to believe that she feels a religious vocation. But the convent is bitterly cold, there is never enough to eat and the nuns observe that only the stout and robust novices can endure the privations of their religious life, which includes a vow of silence. Jeanne is unable to bear the loneliness or physical hardships, and soon falls seriously ill. Her mother, Madeleine, refuses to send for her, but she is rescued by her beautiful young Aunt Florence, whom Jeanne thinks of ever after as "The Angel." "The Angel" takes her ailing niece into her own house and under her protection, but after Jeanne's return to health, she must return to her parents' oppressive home. Lonely and lost, innocent and ignorant, Jeanne escapes into marriage with Mick O'Neill, a charming Irishman and her father's protege, but marriage is far from being the haven for which she has longed. This is the story of a passionate woman's quest for happiness and maturity in a repressive society, but it is also a portrait of that society in the throes of overwhelming change. La Passion de Jeanne was on the bestseller lists for over three months in Quebec in 1997.

Humanity Divided

Author : Manuel Duarte de Oliveira
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110741180
Total Pages : 657 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book Humanity Divided written by Manuel Duarte de Oliveira and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-09-20 with total page 657 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: With exacting scholarship and fecund analysis, Manuel Oliveira probes through the lens of Martin Buber (1878-1965) the theological and political ambiguities of Israel’s divine election. These ambiguities became especially pronounced with the emergence of Zionism. Wary, indeed, alarmed by the tendency of some of his fellow Zionists to conflate divine chosenness with nationalism, Buber sought to secure the theological significance of election by both steering Zionism from hypertrophic nationalism and by a sustained program to revalorize what he called alternately “Hebrew Humanism.” As Oliveira demonstrates, Buber viewed the idea of election teleologically, espousing a universal mission of Israel, which effectively calls upon Zionism to align its political and cultural project to universal objectives. Thus, in addressing a Zionist congress, he rhetorically asked, “What then is this spirit of Israel of which you are speaking? It is the spirit of fulfillment. Fulfillment of what? Fulfillment of the simple truth that man has been created for a purpose (...) Our purpose is the upbuilding of peace (...) And that is its spirit, the spirit of Israel (...) the people of Israel was charged to lead the way to righteousness and justice.”

Divided Passions

Author : Kimberly J. Cook
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 248 pages
Book Rating : 4.X/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book Divided Passions written by Kimberly J. Cook and published by . This book was released on 1998 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Drawing on in-depth interviews conducted with a diverse group of people who shared their views on religion, race, gender, and politics, Kimberly Cook probes the cultural forces underlying the apparent paradox of opposition to abortion and support for the death penalty. Cook's groundbreaking study provides a new and provocative analysis of assorted perspectives on abortion and capital punishhment.

Judaism and Modernity

Author : Gillian Rose
Publisher : Verso Books
ISBN 13 : 1786630885
Total Pages : 305 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (866 download)

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Download or read book Judaism and Modernity written by Gillian Rose and published by Verso Books. This book was released on 2017-03-28 with total page 305 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘other’ of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction.

Passion of a Divided Soul

Author : Timaka Burl
Publisher : Tate Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1615666702
Total Pages : 112 pages
Book Rating : 4.6/5 (156 download)

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Download or read book Passion of a Divided Soul written by Timaka Burl and published by Tate Publishing. This book was released on 2010-08 with total page 112 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Romantic love might be one of the most talked-about subjects in the world. Sometimes it can be confusing and hurtful, but other times it can be fulfilling and exciting. Either way, feelings of love are important and need to be carefully considered. New author Timaka Burl takes a bold new approach to her poetry. Exploring those taboo love situations, Timaka Burl knows how it feels to be torn between what is right and wrong. She shares difficult times in her life and how they've influenced her to be a better friend, lover, and person. Make the right decision-fall in love with the truth in Passions of a Divided Soul.

Plato and the Divided Self

Author : Rachel Barney
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 0521899664
Total Pages : 409 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (218 download)

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Download or read book Plato and the Divided Self written by Rachel Barney and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2012-02-16 with total page 409 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Investigates Plato's account of the tripartite soul, looking at how the theory evolved over the Republic, Phaedrus and Timaeus.

Clash of Modernities

Author : Khaldoun Samman
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 1317262352
Total Pages : 272 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (172 download)

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Download or read book Clash of Modernities written by Khaldoun Samman and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2015-12-03 with total page 272 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: To understand the Middle East we must also understand how the West produced a temporal narrative of world history in which westemers placed themselves on top and all others below them. In a landmark reinterpretation of Middle Eastern history, this book shows how Arabs, Muslims, Turks, and Jews absorbed, revised, yet remained loyal to this Western vision. Turkish Kemalism and Israeli Zionism, in their efforts to push their people forward, accepted the narrative almost wholeheartedly, eradicating what they perceived as 'archaic' characteristics of their Jewish and Turkish cultures. Arab nationalists negotiated a more culturally schizophrenic approach to appeasing the colonizer's gaze. But so too, Samman argues, did the Islamists who likewise wanted to improve their societies. But in order to modernize, Islamists prescribed the eradication of Western contamination and reintroduced the prophetic stage that they believe - if the colonizer and their local Arab coconspirators hadn't intervened - would have produced true civilization. Samman's account explains why Islamists broke more radically with the colonizer's insult. For all these nationalists gender would be used as the measuring device of how well they did in relation to the colonizer's gaze.

Thinking Jewish Culture in America

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Lexington Books
ISBN 13 : 0739174479
Total Pages : 347 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (391 download)

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Download or read book Thinking Jewish Culture in America written by Ken Koltun-Fromm and published by Lexington Books. This book was released on 2013-12-11 with total page 347 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s postscript, position Jewish thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.

History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon

Author : Adolphe Thiers
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 544 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (767 download)

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Download or read book History of the Consulate and the Empire of France Under Napoleon written by Adolphe Thiers and published by . This book was released on 1893 with total page 544 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Origin and Doctrines of Early Indian Buddhist Schools

Author : Vasumitra
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (39 download)

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Download or read book Origin and Doctrines of Early Indian Buddhist Schools written by Vasumitra and published by . This book was released on 1925 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought

Author : Chad Alen Goldberg
Publisher : University of Chicago Press
ISBN 13 : 022646069X
Total Pages : 241 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (264 download)

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Book Synopsis Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought by : Chad Alen Goldberg

Download or read book Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought written by Chad Alen Goldberg and published by University of Chicago Press. This book was released on 2017-05-22 with total page 241 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, prominent social thinkers in France, Germany, and the United States sought to understand the modern world taking shape around them. Although they worked in different national traditions and emphasized different features of modern society, they repeatedly invoked Jews as a touchstone for defining modernity and national identity in a context of rapid social change. In Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought, Chad Alan Goldberg brings us a major new study of Western social thought through the lens of Jews and Judaism. In France, where antisemites decried the French Revolution as the “Jewish Revolution,” Émile Durkheim challenged depictions of Jews as agents of revolutionary subversion or counterrevolutionary reaction. When German thinkers such as Karl Marx, Georg Simmel, Werner Sombart, and Max Weber debated the relationship of the Jews to modern industrial capitalism, they reproduced, in secularized form, cultural assumptions derived from Christian theology. In the United States, William Thomas, Robert Park, and their students conceived the modern city and its new modes of social organization in part by reference to the Jewish immigrants concentrating there. In all three countries, social thinkers invoked real or purported differences between Jews and gentiles to elucidate key dualisms of modern social thought. The Jews thus became an intermediary through which social thinkers discerned in a roundabout fashion the nature, problems, and trajectory of their own wider societies. Goldberg rounds out his fascinating study by proposing a novel explanation for why Jews were such an important cultural reference point. He suggests a rethinking of previous scholarship on Orientalism, Occidentalism, and European perceptions of America, arguing that history extends into the present, with the Jews—and now the Jewish state—continuing to serve as an intermediary for self-reflection in the twenty-first century.

A Student's Manual of Psychology

Author : Friedrich Kirchner
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 394 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book A Student's Manual of Psychology written by Friedrich Kirchner and published by . This book was released on 1888 with total page 394 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion

Author : Angela Kuttner Botelho
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
ISBN 13 : 3110732068
Total Pages : 209 pages
Book Rating : 4.1/5 (17 download)

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Download or read book German Jews and the Persistence of Jewish Identity in Conversion written by Angela Kuttner Botelho and published by Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG. This book was released on 2021-08-23 with total page 209 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This book explores the fraught aftermath of the German Jewish conversionary experience through the story of one family as it grapples with the meaning of its Jewish origins in a post-Holocaust, post-conversionary milieu. Utilizing archival family texts and multiple interviews spanning three generations, beginning with the author’s German Jewish parents, 1940s refugees, and engaging the insights of contemporary scholars, the book traces the impact of a contested Jewish identity on the deconstruction and reconstruction of the Jewish self. The Holocaust as post-memory and the impact of the German Jewish culture personified by the author’s parents leads to a retrieval of a lost Jewish identity, postmodern in its implications, reinforcing the concept of Judaism as ultimately a family affair. Focusing on the personal to illuminate a complex historical phenomenon, this book proposes a new cultural history that challenges conventional boundaries of what is Jewish and what is not.

The Passions

Author : Robert C. Solomon
Publisher : Hackett Publishing
ISBN 13 : 9780872202269
Total Pages : 360 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (22 download)

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Download or read book The Passions written by Robert C. Solomon and published by Hackett Publishing. This book was released on 1993-01-01 with total page 360 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: An abridged reprint of the Doubleday edition of 1976, with new preface and conclusion by the author.

Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

Author : Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
ISBN 13 : 1009221663
Total Pages : 343 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (92 download)

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Download or read book Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence written by Daniel H. Weiss and published by Cambridge University Press. This book was released on 2023-03-31 with total page 343 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.

The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience

Author : Michael Zank
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004292691
Total Pages : 391 pages
Book Rating : 4.0/5 (42 download)

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Download or read book The Value of the Particular: Lessons from Judaism and the Modern Jewish Experience written by Michael Zank and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2015-04-14 with total page 391 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Value of the Particular assembles original essays by senior and junior scholars in comparative religion, philosophy of religion, modern Judaism, and post-Holocaust studies, fields of inquiry where Steven T. Katz made major contributions.