The Angel of History: Rosenzweig, Benjamin, Scholem
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In The Angel of History, Mos s 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...
Format:Hardcover
Language:English
ISBN:0804741166
ISBN13:9780804741163
Release Date:December 2008
Publisher:Stanford University Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.98 lbs.
Dimensions:0.6" x 6.0" x 9.0"
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