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Inventing new beginnings [electronic resource]

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An inquiry into the meaning of ""renaissance"" in modern Jewish thought, its place in the philosophical tradition of the West, and its moral possibilities.

Title Inventing new beginnings [electronic resource] : on the idea of Renaissance in modern Judaism / Asher D. Biemann.
Publisher Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press
Creation Date c2009
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content Thinking in Renaissance or a grammar of beginnings. Beginnings: thresholds of continuity
Beginning anew: the palingenesis of memory
Turning: transformations into the open -- Writing in resurrection or the semantics of restoration. The imperishability of being: writing Jewish history in resurrection
The retrieval of ambivalence: Jewish Renaissance and the (re-)turn(-ing) to/of tradition
The unfinishedness of return: renaissance and the reaestheticization of Judaism.
Series Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture
Extent 1 online resource (638 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010718648005171
MARC RECORDS
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