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Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity - Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare (Hardcover)
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Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity - Charles Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare (Hardcover)
Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
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This book grapples with a wide range of contemporary ethical and
religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles
Peguy on his friend and mentor Bernard-Lazare. Both Peguy, a
leading French Catholic poet and philosopher, and Bernard-Lazare,
an iconoclastic Jewish intellectual, were passionately involved in
the Dreyfus Affair, which forms the background of these
reflections.
The book is in four parts. The first sets Peguy's portrait of
Bernard-Lazare in a series of contexts, analyzing it against the
background of the rampant antisemitism of its time, situating it in
relation to present-day discussions about the "Other," and,
especially, placing it within various twentieth-century attempts to
rethink religion. Peguy's great contribution in this area lies in
redirecting our attention to the ways human beings respond to
defeat, and to the ways the intellect is oriented by something
outside itself, as keys to the discovery of the transcendent. His
work reformulates the meaning of hope and incarnation.
The second part of the book presents Peguy's portrait of
Bernard-Lazare in a complete English translation. In the third
part, the author shows the affinity of Peguy's thought to that of
two Jewish thinkers, Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas. All
three, in rethinking the religious dimension, located it amidst the
daily interactions between people. The final part explores the
implications of this notion of transcendence for the task of
interpretation in the social sciences and the humanities.
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