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What Are Jews For? - History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (Hardcover)
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What Are Jews For? - History, Peoplehood, and Purpose (Hardcover)
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A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the
seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the
past, present, and future What is the purpose of Jews in the world?
The Bible singles out the Jews as God's "chosen people," but the
significance of this special status has been understood in many
different ways over the centuries. What Are Jews For? traces the
history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval
foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to
Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. Adam
Sutcliffe delves into the links between Jewish and Christian
messianism and the association of Jews with universalist and
transformative ideals in modern philosophy, politics, literature,
and social thought. The Jews have been accorded a crucial role in
both Jewish and Christian conceptions of the end of history, when
they will usher the world into a new epoch of unity and harmony.
Since the seventeenth century this messianic underlay to the idea
of Jewish purpose has been repeatedly reconfigured in new forms.
From the political theology of the early modern era to almost all
domains of modern thought-religious, social, economic, nationalist,
radical, assimilationist, satirical, and psychoanalytical-Jews have
retained a close association with positive transformation for all.
Sutcliffe reveals the persistent importance of the "Jewish Purpose
Question" in the attempts of Jews and non-Jews alike to connect the
collective purpose of particular communities to the broader
betterment of humanity. Shedding light on questions of
exceptionalism, pluralism, and universalism, What Are Jews For?
explores an intricate question that remains widely resonant in
contemporary culture and political debate.
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