Geography of hope : exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation / Pierre Birnbaum ; translated by Charlotte Mandell.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Birnbaum, Pierre.

Series:

Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture

Standardized Title:

Géographie de l'espoir. English

Language:

English

French

Subjects (All):

Jews--History--Historiography.

Jews.

Jews--History--Philosophy.

History.

Philosophy.

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews--Identity.

Jewish philosophers.

Historiography.

Physical Description:

479 pages ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, [2008]

Summary:

In "Geography of Hope," French sociologist and historian Pierre Birnbaum examines the work of the some of the prominent Jewish social scientists of the past two centuries in order to analyze their range of responses to the tensions between the Enlightenment call for universalism and the reality of Jewish particularism.

Contents:

Introduction: Toward a counterhistory

Karl Marx: around a surprising encounter with Heinrich Graetz

Émile David Durkheim: the memory of Masada

Georg Simmel: the stranger, from Berlin to Chicago

Raymond Aron: an "authentic French Jew" in search of his roots

Hannah Arendt: Hannah and Rahel, "fugitives from Palestine"

Isaiah Berlin: the awakening of a wounded nationalism

Michael Walzer: the end of whispering

Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi: a home for "fallen Jews"

Conclusion: exile, the Enlightenment, disassimilation.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 385-479).

ISBN:

0804752931

9780804752930

OCLC:

174134089