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The Afterlife of Moses - Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Paperback)
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The Afterlife of Moses - Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg
reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational
myth of politics—of the formation not of a nation but of a
political community grounded in universal law. Modern renderings of
the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to
Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its
critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the
first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent
critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art
and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's
argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus
story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a varied modern
history of political beginnings. Beginnings, as distinct from
origins, are human and historical, writes Steinberg. Political
constitutions, as a form of beginning, imply the eventuality of
their own renewals and their own reconstitutions. Motivated in part
by recent reactionary insurgencies in the US, Europe, and Israel,
this astute work of intellectual history posits the critique of
myths of origin as a key principle of democratic government,
affect, and citizenship, of their endurance as well as their
fragility.
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