Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity (Culture of Jewish Modernity) - Hardcover

Paul Mendes-Flohr

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0814320309 ISBN 13: 9780814320303

Publisher: Wayne State University Press, 1991

Synopsis

Paul Mendes-Flohr is emerging as the leading Jewish intellectual historian of the present generation. In particular, he is responsible for a significant amount of the important and pertinent scholarship in the field of German-Jewish intellectual history. No one else is quite as intimately knowledgeable with this material, the ambiguous legacy of one of the most inventive and poignant episodes of
creativity in the life of the Diaspora. Divided Passions is a collection of published and unpublished essays and articles by Paul Mendes-Flohr from the past decade. In a manner that underscores their continued relevance and significance, Mendes-Flohr writes about the problems that Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, Simon, Scholem and others tried to crystallize and resolve. Mendes-Flohr moves with effortless authority among the disciplines of theology, philosophy, literature, history, and sociology. Fitted with these interdisciplinary resources, he enriches his treatment of themes and figures in ways
that exceed the scope, to say nothing of the execution, found in other literature. The book conveys a rare metaphysical depth, for questions of faith, identity, and Dasein explored by the intellectual figures of the past are also personal ones for the author as well. Mendes-Flohr's exceptional ability to keep this body of work alive and available provides an outstanding source of commentary on the subjects that dominate the agenda of modern Jewish studies.

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Book Description

Divided Passions is a collection of essays in which Paul Mendes-Flohr writes about the problems that Buber, Rosenzweig, Bloch, Simon, Scholem, and other Jewish intellectuals tried to crystallize and resolve.

About the Author

Paul Mendes-Flohr is professor of Jewish
thought and intellectual history at The Hebrew University of Jerusalem. A Ph.D. from Brandeis University, he has written extensively on German-Jewish intellectual history. His published works include The Jew in the Modern World: A Documentary History (with Jehuda Reinharz), A Land of Two Peoples: Martin Buber on Jews and Arabs, and From Mysticism to Dialogue: Martin Buber's Transformation of German Social Thought.

Edition details

• Publisher: Wayne State University Press
• Publication date: 1991
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0814320309
• ISBN 13: 9780814320303
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 449