Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Mode Jewish Thought (The Tauber Institute Series for the Study of European Jewry)

by: Gilad Sharvit (Author)

Publisher: Brandeis University Press

Publication Date: 2022/11/11

Language: English

Print Length: 332 pages

ISBN-10: 1684581036

ISBN-13: 9781684581030

Book Description

A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history.  Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of mode Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, retu, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought. To grasp the complexities of Jewish messianism in modeity, the book focuses on diverse notions of “dynamic repetition” in the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.

About the Author

A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history.  Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of mode Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, retu, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought. To grasp the complexities of Jewish messianism in modeity, the book focuses on diverse notions of “dynamic repetition” in the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.