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Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism

Son of Spinoza: Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism

Hjortshøj, Søren Blak

Hardcover

Literary CriticismJudaism

ISBN10: 8772190183
ISBN13: 9788772190181
Publisher: Aarhus University Press
Published: Feb 11 2021
Pages: 288
Weight: 1.54
Height: 1.10 Width: 6.60 Depth: 9.70
Language: English
Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Brandes (1842-1927). Today, the historical tradition of interconnecting these concepts has largely been forgotten, although the construction of a somewhat synonymous relation between them became a key structuring element of modern antisemitism and later Nazi ideology. In this context, Georg Brandes-his writing and practice-stands as a crucial European cosmopolitan archive, due to the great influence he enjoyed throughout the European continent. Son of Spinoza challenges the presentation of Brandes in previous research as a so-called assimilated Jew who distanced himself from Jewishness, instead recognizing Brandes' own self-identification as a Spinozist cosmopolitan and his depiction of himself and other modern Jews as 'sons of Spinoza'.

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