Son of Spinoza : Georg Brandes and Modern Jewish Cosmopolitanism / Søren Blak Hjortshøj.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Hjortshøj, Søren Blak, author.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jews--Intellectual life.

Jews.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Aarhus : Aarhus University Press, 2021.

Summary:

Son of Spinoza sheds light on the interconnectedness between Jewishness and cosmopolitanism in the oeuvre of the Danish-Jewish intellectual Georg Brandes (1842-1927). Today, the historical tradition of interconnecting these concepts has largely been forgotten, although the construction of a somewhat synonymous relation between them became a key structuring element of modern antisemitism and later Nazi ideology. In this context, Georg Brandes-his writing and practice-stands as a crucial European cosmopolitan archive, due to the great influence he enjoyed throughout the European continent. Son of Spinoza challenges the presentation of Brandes in previous research as a so-called assimilated Jew who distanced himself from Jewishness, instead recognizing Brandes' own self-identification as a Spinozist cosmopolitan and his depiction of himself and other modern Jews as 'sons of Spinoza'.

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ISBN:

87-7219-201-1

OCLC:

1535978711