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The End of Jewish Modernity (eBook)

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Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book, esteemed historian Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that this cultural epoch has come to an end.

Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought has, since the end of the war, undergone a conservative turn. With great sensitivity and nuance, Traverso traces this development to the virtual destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, and the establishment of the United States and Israel as the new poles of Jewish communal life. This is a compelling narrative, hinged upon a highly original discussion of Hannah Arendt's writings on Jewishness and politics.

With provocative chapters on the relationship between antisemitism and Islamophobia, the ascendance of Zionism, and the new 'civil religion of the Holocaust', The End of Jewish Modernity is both an elegy to a lost tradition and an intellectual history of the present.

Has Jewish modernity exhausted itself? Flourishing between the age of Enlightenment and the Second World War, the intellectual, literary, scientific and artistic legacy of Jewish modernity continues to dazzle us, however, in this provocative new book, esteemed historian Enzo Traverso argues powerfully that this cultural epoch has come to an end.

Previously a beacon for critical thinking in the Western world, the mainstream of Jewish thought has, since the end of the war, undergone a conservative turn. With great sensitivity and nuance, Traverso traces this development to the virtual destruction of European Jewry by the Nazis, and the establishment of the United States and Israel as the new poles of Jewish communal life. This is a compelling narrative, hinged upon a highly original discussion of Hannah Arendt's writings on Jewishness and politics.

With provocative chapters on the relationship between antisemitism and Islamophobia, the ascendance of Zionism, and the new 'civil religion of the Holocaust', The End of Jewish Modernity is both an elegy to a lost tradition and an intellectual history of the present.

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VerlagPluto Press
EinbandPDF
Erscheinungsjahr2016
Seitenangabe176 S.
AusgabekennzeichenEnglisch
Masse0 KB
PlattformPDF
AutorTraverso, Enzo

Über den Autor Enzo Traverso

Enzo Traverso (Gavi, Italia, 1957) estudió Historia Contemporánea en la Università degli Studi di Genova y obtuvo su doctorado en la École des Hautes Études en Sciences Sociales, en París, con una tesis dirigida por Michael Löwy. En la actualidad es profesor en Cornell University, Ithaca, en Nueva York. También ha impartido clases en la Université de Picardie Jules Verne, en Amiens, y ha sido profesor invitado en numerosas universidades americanas y europeas. Entre sus libros, publicados en varios idiomas, se cuentan: Siegfried Kracauer. Itinerario de un intelectual nómada (1998); La historia desgarrada. Ensayo sobre Auschwitz y los intelectuales (2001); Los marxistas y la cuestión judía. Historia de un debate (2003); Cosmópolis. Figuras del exilio judeo-alemán (2004); El pasado, instrucciones de uso. Historia, memoria, política (2007); ¿Qué fue de los intelectuales? (2014) y Las nuevas caras de la derecha (2018). El Fondo de Cultura Económica ha publicado La violencia nazi. Una genealogía europea (2003), La historia como campo de batalla. Interpretar las violencias del siglo xx (2012); El final de la modernidad judía. Historia de un giro conservador (2014) y Revolución. Una historia intelectual (2022).

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