Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought

by David N. Myers

Book Overview

Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691146608
• ISBN13: 9780691146607
• Release Date: January 2010
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 272 Pages
• Weight: 0.84 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"