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Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

The Humanist Tradition in Peril

By: Avihu Zakai

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Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

The Humanist Tradition in Peril

By: Avihu Zakai

This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with his struggle against the premises of Aryan philology, based on völkisch mysticism and Nazi historiography, which eliminated the Old Testament from German Kultur and Volksgeist in particular, and Western culture and civilization in general. It examines in detail his apologia for, or defense and justification of, Western Judaeo-Christian humanist tradition at its gravest existential moment. It discusses Auerbach’s ultimate goal, which was to counter the overt racist tendencies and völkish ideology in Germany, or the belief in the Community of Blood and Fate of the German people, which sharply distinguished between Kultur and civilization and glorified völkisch nationalism over European civilization. The volume includes an analysis of the entire twenty chapters of Auerbach’s most celebrated book: Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature, 1946.

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3319409581

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

By: Avihu Zakai

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

By: Avihu Zakai

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature: The Re-Enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning analyses the works of Jonathan Edwards (1703-1758) on natural philosophy in a series of contexts within which they may best be explored and understood. Its aim is to place Edwards's writings on natural philosophy in the broad historical, theological and scientific context of a wide variety of religious responses to the rise of modern science in the early modern period - John Donne's reaction to the new astronomical philosophy of Copernicus, Kepler and Galileo, as well as to Francis Bacon's new natural philosophy; Blaise Pascal's response to Descartes' mechanical philosophy; the reactions to Newtonian science and finally Jonathan Edwards's response to the scientific culture and imagination of his time.

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Bloomsbury Publishing

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0567070956

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9780567070951

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Avihu Zakai

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment

By: Avihu Zakai

Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time and the meaning of history, there has been no serious attempt to explore his philosophy of history. Offering the first such exploration, Zakai considers Edwards's historical thought as a reaction, in part, to the varieties of Enlightenment historical narratives and their growing disregard for theistic considerations. Zakai analyzes the ideological origins of Edwards's insistence that the process of history depends solely on God's redemptive activity in time as manifested in a series of revivals throughout history, reading this doctrine as an answer to the threat posed to the Christian theological teleology of history by the early modern emergence of a secular conception of history and the modern legitimation of historical time. In response to the Enlightenment refashioning of secular, historical time and its growing emphasis on human agency, Edwards strove to re-establish God's preeminence within the order of time. Against the de-Christianization of history and removal of divine power from the historical process, he sought to re-enthrone God as the author and lord of history--and thus to re-enchant the historical world. Placing Edwards's historical thought in its broadest context, this book will be welcomed by those who study early modern history, American history, or religious culture and experience in America.

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Princeton University Press

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1400825601

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9781400825608

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

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Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

This book examines works of four German-Jewish scholars who, in their places of exile, sought to probe the pathology of the Nazi mind: Wilhelm Reich’s The Mass Psychology of Fascism (1933), Erich Fromm’s Escape from Freedom (1941), Siegfried Kracauer’s From Caligari to Hitler: A Psychological History of the German Film (1947), and Erich Neumann’s Depth Psychology and a New Ethic (1949). While scholars have examined these authors’ individual legacies, no comparative analysis of their shared concerns has yet been undertaken, nor have the content and form of their psychological inquiries into Nazism been seriously and systematically analyzed. Yet, the sense of urgency in their works calls for attention. They all took up their pens to counter Nazi barbarism, believing, like the English jurist and judge Sir William Blackstone, who wrote in 1753 - scribere est agere ("to write is to act").

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Springer Nature

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3030540707

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The Pen Confronts the Sword

Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

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The Pen Confronts the Sword

Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

Demonstrates how four books by dissident German intellectuals served as a rebuke to the Nazi regime. During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Manns Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirers The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbachs Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adornos Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf(culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history. This book provides a remarkable synopsis of four well-known, but disparate, responses to Nazism and links them as part of a humanist cultural war with dictatorship. By combining the readings of Mann, Cassirer, Auerbach, and Adorno/Horkheimer, we gain a comprehensive view of an ideal of Western culture composed from very different directions. This approach unlocks a reading of these classics of modern scholarship that is usually lost either in their specific reception by subdisciplines or in their isolated reading as brilliant works. Gregory B. Moynahan, author of Ernst Cassirer and the Critical Science of Germany: 18991919

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SUNY Press

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1438471637

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

By: Avihu Zakai

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The Re-enchantment of the World in the Age of Scientific Reasoning

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Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

The Humanist Tradition in Peril

By: Avihu Zakai

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The Humanist Tradition in Peril

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Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment

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The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment

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The Pen Confronts the Sword

Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

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Exiled German Scholars Challenge Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

During 1942, the decisive battles of Stalingrad and El Alamein raged and the Nazi genocide was at its lethal peak. The Pen Confronts the Sword examines the shared motives behind four remarkable texts German exiles began writing that year: Thomas Mann's Doctor Faustus (1947); Ernst Cassirer's The Myth of the State (1946); Erich Auerbach's Mimesis: The Representation of Reality in Western Literature (1946); and Max Horkheimer and Theodor Adorno's Dialectic of Enlightenment (1944). Each identified a specific danger in Nazi ideology and mustered new theories, approaches, and sources to combat it. The books aimed to expose the encompassing catastrophes of German culture (Mann), politics (Cassirer), philology (Auerbach), and philosophy and sociology (Horkheimer and Adorno). Their scope, mastery, and sense of urgency constitute a comprehensive Kulturkampf (culture war) against Nazi barbarism. Avihu Zakai cogently analyzes each work, explains the context of its creation, and draws connections between these four landmark books in Western intellectual history.

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State University of New York Press

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1438471653

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Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

By: Avihu Zakai

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Exile and Kingdom

History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America

By: Avihu Zakai

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History and Apocalypse in the Puritan Migration to America

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This book explores the ideological origins of the Puritan migration to and experience in America.

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0521521424

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Book's by Avihu Zakai

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

The Pen Confronts the Sword

The Pen Confronts the Sword

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of Nature

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History

The Pen Confronts the Sword

The Pen Confronts the Sword

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

Jewish Exiles’ Psychological Interpretations of Nazism

Exile and Kingdom

Exile and Kingdom

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