Language of conformity and dissent : on the imaginative grammar of Jewish intellectuals in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries / Giuseppe Veltri.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Veltri, Giuseppe.

Series:

Perspectives in Jewish Intellectual Life

Perspectives in Jewish intellectual life

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Languages--History--19th century.

Jews.

Jews--Languages--History--20th century.

Language and languages--Grammars.

Language and languages.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (300 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This book outlines some aspects of Jewish intellectual life in the nineteenth and twentieth century, presenting a narrative of the relationship between Jewish scholars and their cultural environment. It investigates the language of conformity and dissent and interprets it as an imaginative grammar, comprising an arsenal of images, concepts, and interpretations. There is a special focus on German roots, for Germany played a major role as an intellectual laboratory in the areas of the (new) branches of academic life. This book consists of four parts: i) Searching for a Scientific Language; ii) "And the Jews": Political and Cultural History of a Conjunction; iii) Creative Languages: The Interstitial Spaces of Monotheism; iv) Disjunction: The Jewish Dissenter. A bibliography as well as detailed indexes of authors, scholars and subjects are included.

Contents:

part I. Searching for a scientific language

part II. Political and cultural history of a conjuction

part III. Creative languages and interstitial spaces

part IV. Disjunction, or, The Jewish dissent.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 9, 2014).

ISBN:

1-61811-239-2

OCLC:

884726003