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The Angel of History - Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem (Paperback)
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The Angel of History - Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem (Paperback)
Series: Cultural Memory in the Present
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In "The Angel of History," Moses looks at three Jewish
philosophers--Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, and Gershom
Scholem--who formulated a new vision of history in 1920s Germany by
moving away from the spirit of assimilation and the Enlightenment
belief in humanity's inevitable progress. Instead, they imagined
history as discontinuous, made of moments that form no totality but
whose ruptures are both more significant--and more promising--than
any apparent homogeneity.
Their direct experience of the twentieth century's great upheavals
led these three thinkers to abandon the old models of causality
that had previously accounted for human experience, and their
cultural and religious background allowed them to turn to the
Jewish experience of history. Jewish messianism always had to
confront the experience of catastrophe, deception, and failure.
Moses shows how this tradition informed a genuine Jewish conception
of history in which redemption may--or may not--occur at any
moment, giving a new chance for hope by locating utopia in the
heart of the present.
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