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This is an augmented edition of a superb volume by one of the
foremost analysts of European institutions and ideas. Here the late
Erich Kahler turns his attention to the special character of the
Jewish people, formed uniquely through the interaction of internal
and external circumstances in which past and present merge.
The chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of
Jewish identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only
by awareness of the close interconnection between the singular
ethnic nature and the unique social structure of the Jewish people.
He discusses the Jews in Europe, specifically the historical
implications of a strict tribal ritual that yet permitted the
widest spiritual scope.
The second half of the book concerns anti-Semitism, in relation
to Jews and Germans. How did the German people, seemingly so
congenial to the Jews, develop a murderous revulsion against them,
ending a long and fruitful symbiosis? Kahler sees this as a
parallel to the parricidal rejection of the Jews by the Christian
church. His argument is deepened in an added chapter, new to this
volume, on the major forms and features of anti-Judaism, 'in which
the earlier theme of the universal and the specific are seen as
central not only to the inner history of Judaism but also to the
specific interaction of Jews and Gentiles throughout social
history.
This is an augmented edition of a superb volume by one of the
foremost analysts of European institutions and ideas. Here the late
Erich Kahler turns his attention to the special character of the
Jewish people, formed uniquely through the interaction of internal
and external circumstances in which past and present merge.The
chapters in this book deal with persistent problems of Jewish
identity. Kahler claims these can be fully understood only by
awareness of the close interconnection between the singular ethnic
nature and the unique social structure of the Jewish people. He
discusses the Jews in Europe, specifically the historical
implications of a strict tribal ritual that yet permitted the
widest spiritual scope.The second half of the book concerns
anti-Semitism, in relation to Jews and Germans. How did the German
people, seemingly so congenial to the Jews, develop a murderous
revulsion against them, ending a long and fruitful symbiosis?
Kahler sees this as a parallel to the parricidal rejection of the
Jews by the Christian church. His argument is deepened in an added
chapter, new to this volume, on the major forms and features of
anti-Judaism, 'in which the earlier theme of the universal and the
specific are seen as central not only to the inner history of
Judaism but also to the specific interaction of Jews and Gentiles
throughout social history.
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The Germans (Paperback)
Erich Kahler, Robert Rita Kimber
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R1,240
Discovery Miles 12 400
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This book is intended as a characterological history of the
Germans, German history viewed as the formation of the German
character. It suggests some reasons why the term capitalism can be
properly applied only to commercial development in Germany.
Man the Measure is the work of a man who has searched passionately
for the reasons of the current breakdown of values and ways of
life, attempting to write history as the biography of man and from
it to gain a view of the future of man.
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The Germans (Hardcover)
Erich Kahler, Robert Rita Kimber
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R3,996
Discovery Miles 39 960
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Ships in 12 - 17 working days
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This book is intended as a characterological history of the
Germans, German history viewed as the formation of the German
character. It suggests some reasons why the term capitalism can be
properly applied only to commercial development in Germany.
Man the Measure is the work of a man who has searched passionately
for the reasons of the current breakdown of values and ways of
life, attempting to write history as the biography of man and from
it to gain a view of the future of man.
This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have
converged from different directions to effect human disintegration.
It discusses the evidences of disintegration in all fields of
contemporary experience, from social, political and economic
processes to those in learning, art and poetry.
This book shows the various evolutionary forces which have
converged from different directions to effect human disintegration.
It discusses the evidences of disintegration in all fields of
contemporary experience, from social, political and economic
processes to those in learning, art and poetry.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which
reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is
forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this
relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its
beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth
century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he
finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man
constantly draws outer space, the contents of a more and more
complex world, into what Rilke called Weltinnenraum, "inner space."
Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
Erich Kahler sees cultural history as a subtle process in which
reality plays upon consciousness and consciousness itself is
forever transforming reality. He traces the ebb and flow of this
relationship by studying changes in narrative form from its
beginnings in the Gilgamesh Cycle to the end of the eighteenth
century. The general direction is toward a growing inwardness, he
finds; what takes place is an expansion of consciousness as man
constantly draws outer space, the contents of a more and more
complex world, into what Rilke called Weltinnenraum, "inner space."
Originally published in 1973. The Princeton Legacy Library uses the
latest print-on-demand technology to again make available
previously out-of-print books from the distinguished backlist of
Princeton University Press. These editions preserve the original
texts of these important books while presenting them in durable
paperback and hardcover editions. The goal of the Princeton Legacy
Library is to vastly increase access to the rich scholarly heritage
found in the thousands of books published by Princeton University
Press since its founding in 1905.
This is a new release of the original 1956 edition.
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
Kessinger Publishing is the place to find hundreds of thousands of
rare and hard-to-find books with something of interest for
everyone!
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