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Salvation Through Spinoza: A Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany

Salvation Through Spinoza: A Study of Jewish Culture in Weimar Germany

Wertheim, David

Hardcover

JudaismAnthropologyGeneral European History

ISBN10: 900420721X
ISBN13: 9789004207219
Publisher: Brill
Published: Sep 20 2011
Pages: 234
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.80 Width: 6.50 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
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 themselves oscillating between the social pressures to both assimilate and remain authentic, sought refuge in a thinker who epitomized both the rationality and liberalism of the Weimar Republic's enlightened defenders as well as the mysticism of its neo-romanticist challengers. In recapturing this forgotten chapter in the history of Spinozism this book sheds an original light on Weimar Germany's reknown Jewish culture.

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