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Politics and Culture in Jewish Studies in Nineteenth-Century France

Politics and Culture in Jewish Studies in Nineteenth-Century France by Alessandro Guetta Alessandro Guetta holds a doctorate in religious sciences and is a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris. His works include a phenomenological study of Italian Judaism (La differenza invisibile: itinerario per teste e immagini tra gli ebrei italiani [Florence: La Giuntina, 1988]) and the forthcoming Entre Hegel et Ie Zohar: la philosophie religieuse d'Elie Benamozegh. - I. Introduction Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God is by now a commonplace of European intellectual discourse. Far lesser has been the posthumous glory of French scholars and thinkers of the same period, whose concerns were hardly far removed from those of the German philosopher. The crisis of religion was experienced just as intensely by them, and the solutions they proposed to it were often characterized by a tone no less prophetic than that employed by the author of Thus Spake Zarathustra. But no Heidegger pored over their works, and thus they have not captivated the interest of theorists trying to describe our complex, fragmented, "postmodern" era. My aim is not merely to acquaint my readers with some forgotten philosophers, as though this were http://www.deepdyve.com/assets/images/DeepDyve-Logo-lg.png Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies Purdue University Press

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by Alessandro Guetta Alessandro Guetta holds a doctorate in religious sciences and is a lecturer at the Ecole des Hautes Etudes en Sciences Sociales (the School for Higher Studies in Social Sciences) in Paris. His works include a phenomenological study of Italian Judaism (La differenza invisibile: itinerario per teste e immagini tra gli ebrei italiani [Florence: La Giuntina, 1988]) and the forthcoming Entre Hegel et Ie Zohar: la philosophie religieuse d'Elie Benamozegh. - I. Introduction Nietzsche's proclamation of the death of God is by now a commonplace of European intellectual discourse. Far lesser has been the posthumous glory of French scholars and thinkers of the same period, whose concerns were hardly far removed from those of the German philosopher. The crisis of religion was experienced just as intensely by them, and the solutions they proposed to it were often characterized by a tone no less prophetic than that employed by the author of Thus Spake Zarathustra. But no Heidegger pored over their works, and thus they have not captivated the interest of theorists trying to describe our complex, fragmented, "postmodern" era. My aim is not merely to acquaint my readers with some forgotten philosophers, as though this were

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Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press

Published: Oct 3, 1996

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