TY - BOOK AU - Myers,David N. TI - Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought T2 - Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World SN - 9781400832569 AV - BM195 PY - 2022///] CY - Princeton, NJ : PB - Princeton University Press, KW - Historicism KW - History KW - Jewish learning and scholarship KW - Germany KW - 19th century KW - 20th century KW - Judaism KW - Historiography KW - HISTORY / Europe / Germany KW - bisacsh KW - Agudat Yisrael KW - Balfour Declaration KW - Benjamin, Walter KW - Breuer, Salomon KW - Cassirer, Ernst KW - Conservative Revolution KW - Davos conference KW - Denominationalism KW - Dilthey, Wilhelm KW - Ehrenfreund, Jacques KW - Enlightenment KW - Erets Yisrael KW - Fischer, Kuno KW - Frankfurt am Main KW - Funkenstein, Amos KW - Geiger, Abraham KW - Geisteswissenschaft KW - Guttmann, Julius KW - Hegelianism KW - Heidegger, Martin KW - Jewish nation KW - Jewishness KW - Kassel KW - Kellerman, Benzion KW - Kierkegaard, Søren KW - Kulturprotestantismus KW - Lazarus, Moritz KW - Luther, Martin KW - Marr, Wilhelm KW - Meinecke, Friedrich KW - Naturwissenschaft KW - Neue Kusari KW - Nordau, Max KW - Otto, Rudolf KW - Rabbinic Judaism KW - Revelation KW - Rosenheim, Jacob KW - Scholem, Gershom KW - Uganda proposal KW - anti-historicism KW - assimilation KW - biblical prophets KW - communitarianism KW - conversion to Christianity KW - cultural bifocality KW - ecclesiastical history KW - historical Jesus movement KW - historicism KW - philosophy KW - positivism KW - post-structuralism KW - systematic theology N1 - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ACKNOWLEDGMENTS --; A NOTE ON THE COVER --; INTRODUCTION --; CHAPTER ONE Jewish Historicism and Its Discontents: An Introduction --; CHAPTER TWO Hermann Cohen and the Problem of History at the Fin de Siècle --; CHAPTER THREE Franz Rosenzweig and the Rise of Theological Anti-Historicism --; CHAPTER FOUR Anti-Historicism and the Theological-Political Predicament in Weimar Germany: The Case of Leo Strauss --; CHAPTER FIVE Isaac Breuer and the Jewish Path to Metageschichte --; CHAPTER SIX From Conclusion to Opening: A Word on Influence, German Jews, and the Cultural History of Ideas --; NOTES --; BIBLIOGRAPHY --; INDEX; restricted access N2 - Nineteenth-century European thought, especially in Germany, was increasingly dominated by a new historicist impulse to situate every event, person, or text in its particular context. At odds with the transcendent claims of philosophy and--more significantly--theology, historicism came to be attacked by its critics for reducing human experience to a series of disconnected moments, each of which was the product of decidedly mundane, rather than sacred, origins. By the late nineteenth century and into the Weimar period, historicism was seen by many as a grinding force that corroded social values and was emblematic of modern society's gravest ills. Resisting History examines the backlash against historicism, focusing on four major Jewish thinkers. David Myers situates these thinkers in proximity to leading Protestant thinkers of the time, but argues that German Jews and Christians shared a complex cultural and discursive world best understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.After examining the growing dominance of the new historicist thinking in the nineteenth century, the book analyzes the critical responses of Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Leo Strauss, and Isaac Breuer. For this fascinating and diverse quartet of thinkers, historicism posed a stark challenge to the ongoing vitality of Judaism in the modern world. And yet, as they set out to dilute or eliminate its destructive tendencies, these thinkers often made recourse to the very tools and methods of historicism. In doing so, they demonstrated the utter inescapability of historicism in modern culture, whether approached from a Christian or Jewish perspective UR - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781400832569?locatt=mode:legacy UR - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781400832569 UR - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781400832569/original ER -