TY  - BOOK
AU  - Lazier,Benjamin
TI  - God interrupted: heresy and the European imagination between the world wars 
SN  - 9781400837656
AV  - BM610 .L3935 2008eb
U1  - 296.3/110904 22
PY  - 2008///
CY  - Princeton, N.J.
PB  - Princeton University Press
KW  - Jonas, Hans,
KW  - Scholem, Gershom Gerhard,
KW  - Strauss, Leo,
KW  - Strauss, Leo.
KW  - Scholem, Gershom,
KW  - Strauss, Leo
KW  - Jonas, Hans
KW  - Scholem, Gershom.
KW  - God (Judaism)
KW  - History of doctrines
KW  - 20th century
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Heresy
KW  - History
KW  - Pantheism
KW  - Gnosticism
KW  - Dieu (Judaïsme)
KW  - Histoire des doctrines
KW  - 20e siècle
KW  - Philosophie juive
KW  - Hérésie
KW  - Histoire
KW  - Panthéisme
KW  - Gnosticisme
KW  - RELIGION
KW  - Judaism
KW  - Theology
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - PHILOSOPHY
KW  - Religious
KW  - fast
KW  - Intellectual life
KW  - Gnosis
KW  - gnd
KW  - Pantheismus
KW  - Jüdische Philosophie
KW  - Häresie
KW  - Pantheismus-Streit
KW  - Jodendom
KW  - gtt
KW  - Pantheïsme
KW  - Afwezigheid van God
KW  - Europe
KW  - Vie intellectuelle
KW  - Europa (geografie)
KW  - Electronic books
N1  - Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-244) and index; The Gnostic return -- God interrupted: Romans in Weimar -- Overcoming Gnosticism -- After Auschwitz, earth -- Pantheism revisited -- The Pantheism controversy -- From God to nature -- Natural right and Judaism -- Redemption through sin -- Jewish Gnosticism -- Raising Pantheism -- From nihilism to nothingness -- Scholem's golem
N2  - Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era. God Interrupted also provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars. Hans Jonas developed a philosophy of biology that inspired European Greens and bioethicists the world over. Leo Strauss became one of the most important and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion, radically recast what it means to be a Jew. Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art. They alert us to the abiding salience of the divine to Europeans between the wars and beyond--even among those for whom God was long missing or dead
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