Margarete Susman - Religious-Political Essays on Judaism (1st ed. 2021) (Jewish Thought and Philosophy)

Synopsis

Margarete Susman was among the great Jewish women philosophers of the twentieth century, and largely unknown to many today. This book presents, for the first time in English, six of her important essays along with an introduction about her life and work. Carefully selected and edited by Elisa Klapheck, these essays give the English-speaking reader a taste of Susman’s religious-political mode of thought, her originality, and her importance as Jewish thinker. Susman's writing on exile, return, and the revolutionary impact of Judaism on humanity, illuminate enhance our understanding of other Jewish philosophers of her time: Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Ernst Bloch (all of them her friends). Her work is in particularly fitting company when read alongside Jewish religious-political and political thinkers such as Bertha Pappenheim, Hannah Arendt, Simone Weil, and Gertrud Stein. Initially a poet, Susman became a follower of the Jewish Renaissance movement, secular Messianism, and the German Revolution of 1918. This collection of essays shows how Susman's work speaks not only to her own time between the two World Wars but to the present day.

Copyright:

2021

Book Details

Book Quality:

Publisher Quality

ISBN-13:

9783030894740

Related ISBNs:

9783030894733

Publisher:

Springer International Publishing

Date of Addition:

05/06/22

Copyrighted By:

The Editor

Adult content:

No

Language:

English

Has Image Descriptions:

No

Categories:

History, Military, Nonfiction, Religion and Spirituality, Philosophy

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Bookshare Staff

Usage Restrictions:

This is a copyrighted book.

Edited by:

Elisa Klapheck

Translator:

Laura Radosh