Avihu Zakai: 3 books
Jonathan Edwards's Philosophy of History
The Reenchantment of the World in the Age of Enlightenment
Language: English
Release Date: February 9, 2009
Avihu Zakai analyzes Jonathan Edwards's redemptive mode of historical thought in the context of the Enlightenment. As theologian and philosopher, Edwards has long been a towering figure in American intellectual history. Nevertheless, and despite Edwards's intense engagement with the nature of time...
Jewish Exiles and European Thought in the Shadow of the Third Reich
Baron, Popper, Strauss, Auerbach
Language: English
Release Date: July 6, 2017
Hans Baron, Karl Popper, Leo Strauss and Erich Auerbach were among the many German-speaking Jewish intellectuals who fled Continental Europe with the rise of Nazism in the 1930s. Their scholarship, though not normally considered together, is studied here to demonstrate how, despite their different...
Erich Auerbach and the Crisis of German Philology
The Humanist Tradition in Peril
Language: English
Release Date: August 24, 2016
This book analyzes and contextualizes Auerbach’s life and mind in the wide ideological, philological, and historical context of his time, especially the rise of Aryan philology and its eventual triumph with the Nazi Revolution or the Hitler Revolution in Germany of 1933. It deals specifically with...