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Spirit in Ashes

1990-01-01 Philosophy
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Release : 1990-01-01
Genre : Philosophy
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Book Synopsis Spirit in Ashes by : Edith Wyschogrod

Download or read book Spirit in Ashes written by Edith Wyschogrod. This book was released on 1990-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Contemporary phenomena of mass death--such as Hiroshima and Auschwitz--have brought with them the threat of annihilation of human life. In this provocative and disturbing book, Edith Wyschogrod shows that the various manifestations of man-made mass death form a single structure, a "death-event," which radically alters our understanding of language, time, and self. She contends that the death event has its own logic and driving force that she traces to pre-Socratic philosophy and to certain mythological motifs that recur in Western thought. "Spirit in Ashes is one book in contemporary philosophy that should be read aloud and taken to heart by any professional or intellectual who purports to have a conscience."--Carl Rasche, Journal of the American Academy of Religion "A masterful blend of scholarship, originality, and serious passion."--Robert C. Neville, Commonweal "An original, insightful, and challenging work."--Robert Burch, Canadian Philosophical Reviews

Spirit in Ashes

1985 Death
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Release : 1985
Genre : Death
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Book Rating : 984/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Spirit in Ashes written by . This book was released on 1985. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Of Spirit

1989 History
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Release : 1989
Genre : History
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Book Rating : 194/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Of Spirit by : Jacques Derrida

Download or read book Of Spirit written by Jacques Derrida. This book was released on 1989. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "I shall speak of ghost, of flame, and of ashes." These are the first words of Jacques Derrida's lecture on Heidegger. It is again a question of Nazism—of what remains to be thought through of Nazism in general and of Heidegger's Nazism in particular. It is also "politics of spirit" which at the time people thought—they still want to today—to oppose to the inhuman. "Derrida's ruminations should intrigue anyone interested in Post-Structuralism. . . . . This study of Heidegger is a fine example of how Derrida can make readers of philosophical texts notice difficult problems in almost imperceptible details of those texts."—David Hoy, London Review of Books "Will a more important book on Heidegger appear in our time? No, not unless Derrida continues to think and write in his spirit. . . . Let there be no mistake: this is not merely a brilliant book on Heidegger, it is thinking in the grand style."—David Farrell Krell, Research in Phenomenology "The analysis of Heidegger is brilliant, provocative, elusive."—Peter C. Hodgson, Religious Studies Review

Sparks Amidst the Ashes

1997-04-24 Religion
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Release : 1997-04-24
Genre : Religion
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Book Synopsis Sparks Amidst the Ashes by : Byron L. Sherwin

Download or read book Sparks Amidst the Ashes written by Byron L. Sherwin. This book was released on 1997-04-24. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For hundreds of years, Poland served as the epicenter of Jewish life. As a result of the Holocaust, though, Poland has become a "Jewish Atlantis." Yet, the majority of Jews in the world today have their genealogical roots in the historical lands of Poland. In this book, Sherwin demonstrates how the unprecedented works of intellect and spirit produced during the Jewish "Golden Age" in Poland can provide contemporary Jews with the spiritual and intellectual resources required to ensure Jewish continuity in the present and future. Sherwin introduces us to the vast range of mystical speculation, evocative stories, talmudic dialectics, theological ideas, and social realities that were muted by the destruction of Polish Jewry during the Holocaust. Sherwin critiques the tendency among contemporary Jews to disregard the precious legacy bequeathed by Polish Jewry, and presents a plan for re-creating Jewish life after the Holocaust that draws from the wisdom of the spiritual magnates and from the communal experience that characterized Jewish life in Poland. Sherwin concludes with a controversial proposal for the future of Polish-Jewish relations.

Blooming Through the Ashes

2008-01 History
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Release : 2008-01
Genre : History
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Book Synopsis Blooming Through the Ashes by : Clifford Chanin

Download or read book Blooming Through the Ashes written by Clifford Chanin. This book was released on 2008-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The twentieth century is frequently characterized in terms of its unprecedented levels of bloodshed. This work features writings about this historic violence and its after-math in a global anthology that brings together the work of Nobel laureates Seamus Heaney, Toni Morrison, Czeslaw Milosz, Wole Soyinka, Elie Wiesel, and Imre Kertesz.

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