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Angel Of History

Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem

  • Paperback
  • 208 pages
  • Publisher: Stanford University Press
  • 15.3 x 22.1 x 1.8 cm

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For those seeking a new view of history.

"Angel Of History" challenges old beliefs about progress.

You’ll find hope in the present amidst life's chaos.

In "The Angel of History," Stephane Moses explores how three Jewish philosophers redefined our understanding of history, offering hope and meaning amidst life's uncertainties.

In "The Angel of History", Moses looks at three Jewish philosophers-Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom Scholem - who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment belief in humanity's inevitable progress. Instead, they imagined history as discontinuous, made of moments that form no totality but whose ruptures are both more significant - and more promising - than any apparent homogeneity. Their direct experience of the twentieth century's great upheavals led these three thinkers to abandon the old models of causality that had previously accounted for human experience, and their cultural and religious background allowed them to turn to the Jewish experience of history. Jewish messianism had always had to confront the experience of catastrophe, deception, and failure. Moses shows how this tradition informed a genuinely Jewish conception of history in which redemption may - or may not - occur at any moment, giving a new chance for hope by locating utopia in the heart of the present.
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  • Title

    Angel Of History

  • Author

    Stephane Moses

  • Book Format

    Paperback / softback

  • Publisher

    Stanford University Press

  • Published

    December 2008

  • Weight

    318g

  • Page Count

    208

  • Dimensions

    15.3 x 22.1 x 1.8 cm

  • ISBN

    9780804741170

  • ISBN-10

    0804741174

  • Eden Code

    1901354

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