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Contradiction Set Free (Paperback)
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt; Translated by John Koster; Introduction by Willi Goetschel
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Discovery Miles 9 000
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First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's
Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects
the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained
momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics
of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975. The book
articulates Goldschmidt's reclamation of an epistemologically
critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link
between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and
political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the
academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond
the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive
consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free
makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one
of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.
First published in 1957, The Legacy of German Jewry is a
comprehensive rethinking of the German-Jewish experience.
Goldschmidt challenges the elegiac view of Gershom Scholem, showing
us the German-Jewish legacy in literature, philosophy, and critical
thought in a new light.Part One re-examines the breakthrough to
modernity, tracing the moves of thinkers like Moses Mendelssohn,
building on the legacies of religious figures like the Baal Shem
Tov and radical philosophers such as Spinoza. This vision of
modernity, Goldschmidt shows, rested upon a belief that aremnantsa
of the radical past could provide ideas and energy for reconceiving
the modern world. Goldschmidtas philosophy of the remnant animates
Part Two as well, where his account of the political history of the
Jews in modernity and the riches of Jewish culture as recast in
German-Jewish thought provide insights into Leo Baeck, Hermann
Cohen, and Franz Rosenzweig, among others. Part Three analyzes the
post-Auschwitz complex, and uses the Book of Job to break through
that trauma.Ahead of his time and biblical in his perspective,
Goldschmidt describes the innovative ways that German-Jewish
writers and thinkers anticipated what we now call multiculturalism
and its concern with the Other. Rather than destined to
destruction, the German-Jewish experience is reconceived here as a
past whose unfulfilled project remains urgent and contemporaryaa
dream yet to be realized in practice, and hence a task that still
awaits its completion.
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Contradiction Set Free (Hardcover)
Hermann Levin Goldschmidt; Translated by John Koster; Introduction by Willi Goetschel
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R3,296
Discovery Miles 32 960
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First published in in 1976, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's
Contradiction Set Free, (Freiheit fur den Widerspruch), reflects
the push to explore new forms of critical thinking that gained
momentum in the decade between Theodor Adorno's Negative Dialectics
of 1966 and Paul Feyerabend's Against Method in 1975. The book
articulates Goldschmidt's reclamation of an epistemologically
critical position that acknowledges the deep underlying link
between the modes of production of knowledge and the social and
political life they produce. In signalling a breakout from the
academic rut and its repressive hold, Goldschmidt pointed beyond
the ossified methods of a philosophical discourse whose oppressive
consequences could no longer be ignored.Contradiction Set Free
makes available for the first time in English a pivotal work by one
of the great critical thinkers of the 20th century.
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