EAN: 9783110709766

FRAGILE SPACES - STEVEN E ASCHHEIM KARTONIERT (TB)

This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises  tensions and dilemmas but
also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts
and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers  the work examines some of the
consequences of political  cultural and personal rupture  as well as the manifold ways in which
various Jewish intellectuals  politicians (and occasionally spies!) sought to respond to these
ruptures and carve out new  sometimes profound  sometimes fanciful  options of thought and
action. It also delves critically into the attacks on liberal and Enlightenment humanism. In
almost all the essays the fragility of things is palpably present and the book touches on some
of the ironies  problematics and functions of responses to that condition. The work mirrors the
author's ongoing fascination with the always fraught  fragile and creatively fecund
confrontation of Jews (and others) with European modernity  its history  politics  culture and
self-definition. In a time of increasing anxiety and feelings of fragility  this work may be
helpful in understanding how people at an earlier (and sometimes contemporary) period sought to
come to terms with a similar predicament.

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