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Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought (Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern World)
David N. Myers
Hardcover. Princeton University Press 2003-10.
ISBN 9780691115931
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Förlagets beskrivning
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. By the late 19th 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. This volume 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 19th century, the book analyses 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. This text looks at the backlash against historicism. It places four Jewish
thinkers in proximity to Protestant thinkers of the 19th century, but argues
that German Jews and Christians shared a cultural and discursive world best
understood in terms of exchange and adaptation rather than influence.
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