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1 online resource. |
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text file |
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New Jewish philosophy and thought
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New Jewish philosophy and thought.
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Hans Driesch and the revival of naturphilosophie -- Georg Cantor and the mathematics of God -- Goldberg's ontology and Unger's politics and metaphysics -- The reality of the Hebrews and Yhwh's battle for the earth -- Gershom Scholem, Oskar Goldberg, and the meaning of Jewish history -- Ghosts and the vitalist imagination -- Thomas Mann's critique of the reality of the Hebrews -- Franz Joseph Molitor's Philosophie der Geschichte and Oskar Goldberg's Kabbalah interpretation. |
| Summary |
Oskar Goldberg was an important and controversial figure in Weimar Germany. He challenged the rising racial conception of the state and claimed that the Jewish people were on a metaphysical mission to defeat race-based statism. He attracted the attention of his contemporaries--Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Thomas Mann, and Carl Schmitt, among others--with the argument that ancient Israel's sacrificial rituals held the key to overcoming the tyranny of technology in the modern world. Bruce Rosenstock offers a sympathetic but critical philosophical portrait of Goldberg and puts him into conversation with Jewish and political figures that circulated in his cultural environment. Rosenstock reveals Goldberg as a deeply imaginative and broad-minded thinker who drew on biology, mathematics, Kabbalah, and his interests in ghost photography to account for the origin of the earth. Caricatured as a Jewish proto-fascist in his day, Goldberg's views of the tyranny of technology, biopolitics, and the "new vitalism" remain relevant to this day. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Goldberg, Oskar, 1885-1952.
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Goldberg, Oskar, 1885-1952. |
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Electronic books.
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Electronic books.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Rosenstock, Bruce (Bruce Benjamin). Transfinite life. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2017 9780253029706 (DLC) 2017011607 |
| ISBN |
9780253030160 (electronic book) |
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0253030161 (electronic book) |
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9780253029706 (cl ; alkaline paper) |
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