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Annette Aronowicz - Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity - 9780804730051 - V9780804730051
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Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity

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Description for Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity Hardback. This book examines a wide range of intellectual, ethical, and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy, on Bernard-Lazare, who was prominent during the Dreyfus Affair. Series: Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture. Num Pages: 204 pages, 2 half-tones. BIC Classification: BG; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational; (UP) Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly; (UU) Undergraduate. Dimension: 5817 x 3887 x 18. Weight in Grams: 465.

This book grapples with a wide range of contemporary ethical and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Péguy on his friend and mentor Bernard-Lazare. Both Péguy, a leading French Catholic poet and philosopher, and Bernard-Lazare, an iconoclastic Jewish intellectual, were passionately involved in the Dreyfus Affair, which forms the background of these reflections.

The book is in four parts. The first sets Péguy’s portrait of Bernard-Lazare in a series of contexts, analyzing it against the background of the rampant antisemitism of its time, situating it in relation to present-day discussions about the “Other,” and, especially, placing ... Read more

The second part of the book presents Péguy’s portrait of Bernard-Lazare in a complete English translation. In the third part, the author shows the affinity of Péguy’s thought to that of two Jewish thinkers, Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas. All three, in rethinking the religious dimension, located it amidst the daily interactions between people. The final part explores the implications of this notion of transcendence for the task of interpretation in the social sciences and the humanities.

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
1998
Publisher
Stanford University Press United States
Number of pages
204
Condition
New
Series
Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
Number of Pages
204
Place of Publication
Palo Alto, United States
ISBN
9780804730051
SKU
V9780804730051
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About Annette Aronowicz
Annette Aronowicz is Associate Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She is the author of Freedom from Ideology: Secrecy in Modern Expression and the translator of Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas.

Reviews for Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity
“We must be grateful to Annette Aronowicz not only for translating and thus bringing to our attention these beautiful and profound pages by Charles Péguy on Bernard-Lazare’s unsung moral and religious heroism in the Dreyfus Affair, but also for highlighting the genuinely timeless importance of his works, which is to say, their continued relevance to the questions of ethics and ... Read more

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