Steven E Aschheim
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 1124868 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Steven E Aschheim |
| NOMBRES | Steven E |
| APELLIDO | Aschheim |
| FIRMA | ASCHHEIM S E |
| AFILIACIONES | Hebrew University of Jerusalem |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 33 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 15 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 31 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1982 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2021 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
On Anson Rabinbach's Staging the Third Reich
This article presents an exposition, analysis, and critique of Anson Rabinbach's historical research and theses as reflected in Staging the Third Reich: Essays in Cultural and Intellectual History (2020), a volume of his essays on Nazism, fascism, antifascism, and the aftermath of these movements in political life, public remembrance, and historiography. The article probes Rabinbach's particular method and significant contributions to intellectua…
George Mosse, Nationalism, Jewishness, Zionism and Israel
This article explores George Mosse's complex attitude to both nationalism in general and particularly to Zionism and Israel. It examines how Mosse was explicitly caught between a critical analysis of nationalism, and an intellectual commitment to liberalism and Bildung, on the one hand, and on the other, an existential attraction to the blandishments and emotional power of nationalism and, given his Jewish identity, especially Zionism
J ay H oward G eller . The Scholems
The fraught saga of modern German-speaking Jewry—with its remarkable achievements and perhaps related tragic fate—remains compelling and extraordinarily well documented. This includes family histories of the rich and cultured German-Jewish elite, such as the Mendelssohns, Cassirers, Mosses, and Warburgs. In his richly researched The Scholems: A Story of the German-Jewish Bourgeoisie from Emancipation to Destruction, however, Jay Howard Geller goe…
C had A lan G oldberg . Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought
Chad Alan Goldberg’s Modernity and the Jews in Western Social Thought is a compelling study of Jews not as producers but as objects of social thought. His central thesis is that the very idea of “the Jews” played a decisive role in the sociological figuration of modernity, functioning always in complex and often ambiguous ways “as a major point of orientation and reference in debates about what it meant to be modern and what it meant to be French…
Fragile Spaces
This book consists of a range of essays covering the complex crises, tensions and dilemmas but also the positive potential in the meeting of Jews with Western culture. In numerous contexts and through the work of fascinating individuals and thinkers, the work examines some of the consequences of political, cultural and personal rupture, as well as the manifold ways in which various Jewish intellectuals, politicians (and occasionally spies!) sough…
The Dialectic of Enlightenment revisited
This reflection critically interrogates Adorno and Horkheimer’s 1944 much-admired Dialectic of Enlightenment, addressing its contextual and ideological origins, its philosophical biases and theoretical assumptions, and the nature of its emphases and omissions as the work sought to grasp the barbarism of the time. It also highlights a rather overlooked publication detail which ideally should have given the authors pause to somewhat revise their pr…
Why the Germans? Why the Jews? Envy, Race Hatred, and the Prehistory of the Holocaust
There is something almost recklessly ambitious in a Holocaust-related work entitled Why the Germans? Why the Jews? After all, decades of reflection and scholarship have, if anything, rendered the issues and the answers ever more complex. The maverick historian Götz Aly, however, confidently contends that the answer is rather simple: sheer envy at rapid Jewish economic and cultural success and perceived domination (as opposed to Christian immobili…
The German-Jewish Experience Revisited
In addition to the papers presented at the workshop, we have included a few extra contributions that round out our reflections. The workshop and the present volume aim at revisiting interesting and important aspects of the German-Jewish experience and evaluating the present state of the field. Senior and junior scholars from Israel, Germany, and the United States all contributed to this work. We shall not summarize the arguments and theses of the…
At the Edges of Liberalism
The Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History series has three primary aims: to close divides between intellectual and cultural approaches, thus bringing them into mutually enriching interactions; to encourage interdisciplinarity in intellectual and cultural history; and to globalize the field, both in geographical scope and in subjects and methods. This series is open to work on a range of modes of intellectual inquiry, including soc…
An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gerhard Scholem
Victor Klemperer, Hannah Arendt, and Gerhard Scholem were three formidable German Jewish intellectuals with radically different conceptions of German identity, liberalism, Marxism, Jewishness, and Zionism and who confronted the great crises of their times with greatly divergent understandings and responses. Aschheim imagines an unwritten confrontational, yet also confessional and ultimately conciliatory, letter that a dying Klemperer addresses to…
Beyond the Border
The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks t…
The Metaphysical Psychologist
In Times of Crisis
Aschheim, Steven E. In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.269 pp. $59.95 hardcover; $22.95 paperback. In Times of Crisis is a diverse collection of analytical, autobiographical and review essays that revisit some of the themes of Steven Aschheim's earlier work: the reception of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Holocaust historiography. Fo…
In Times of Crisis
Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
Comrade Klemperer
This article seeks to analyse the ‘later’ Victor Klemperer through his newly published diaries for the period, 1945–59. It attempts to unravel the complex reasons for his turn to communism — after many years of vehement opposition to that movement — and his life and fate as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. It also maps Klemperer's fraught and changing attitudes towards that regime. At the same time, the article traces the tensions bet…
Arendt and The Origins of Totalitarianism
Nach dem Tod Gottes Varianten nietzscheanischer Religion
Nietzsche und die Deutschen
George Mosse and Jewish History
George Mosse viewed history as a totality. It should come as no surprise, then, that his vision of the modern Jewish experience was in accordance with this predilection. Just as, for him, the political and the religious, the scientific and the aesthetic realms, were intertwined, deeply co-implicated, he refused to pigeon-hole and separate, or to use one of his favorite terms, "ghettoize" Jewish history and cut it off from the larger European whol…
Brothers and strangers
George Mosse at 80
George Mosse's Europe has always been peopled by strange and powerful forces threatening to engulf its precious but fragile humanist heritage. He has throughout concerned himself with the deeper roots of nazism and its destruction of the Jews, always lifting it out of narrow, parochial contexts and linking it to wider - and usually unperceived - modalities of culture. Over the years the foci have become ever more broader, probing and daring. View…
Culture and Catastrophe
On Saul Friedl nder
Max Nordau, Friedrich Nietzsche and Degeneration
Max Nordau (1849-1923) was a household name to educated late nineteenth-century Europeans. It is a telling fact that most late twentieth-century readers will have little or no idea who he was or what he represented. A famous journalist, physician, dramatist, novelist, polemicist and, later, Zionist activist, his thought and work, so it appears today, achieved widespread popularity amongst the middle classes precisely because it was so time-bound,…
The Metaphysical Psychologist
George Mosse at 80
George Mosse's Europe has always been peopled by strange and powerful forces threatening to engulf its precious but fragile humanist heritage. He has throughout concerned himself with the deeper roots of nazism and its destruction of the Jews, always lifting it out of narrow, parochial contexts and linking it to wider - and usually unperceived - modalities of culture. Over the years the foci have become ever more broader, probing and daring. View…
Nazism, Culture and The Origins of Totalitarianism
The intense intellectual and emotional impact exerted by Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism upon a whole generation of readers during the 1950s and through the 1960s has been well documented and is in no need of rehearsal here.1 Any rereading of the work, any appreciation of its cultural significance and the role it has played, will have to seek the reasons for this. Its appearance satisfied a number of real, indeed urgent, through of…
From myth to counter‐myth
The East European Jews (Ostjuden) played an integral role in German Jewish self‐definition. As ‘ghetto Jews’ they were living embodiments of the general pre‐modern Jewish condition and perfect foils for the creation of Jewish myths and counter‐myths, stereotypical negations and affirmations. This paper attempts to delineate the outlines of these myths and counter‐myths and to analyse the major symbolic functions which the Eastern Jews performed i…
Nietzschean Socialism — Left and Right, 1890-1933
We are all, no doubt, aware of Friedrich Nietzsche's elitist contempt for the masses and their life-negating ressentiment morality.1 The enemies of social democracy certainly were and often made Nietzsche the focus of their attack on the left. As one conservative English commentator put it in 1909: 'John Bull is a patient just now. Nietzsche is the only doctor who can help him, for his greatest disease is socialism ... Dr Nietzsche either cures h…
Max Nordau, Friedrich Nietzsche and Degeneration
Max Nordau (1849-1923) was a household name to educated late nineteenth-century Europeans. It is a telling fact that most late twentieth-century readers will have little or no idea who he was or what he represented. A famous journalist, physician, dramatist, novelist, polemicist and, later, Zionist activist, his thought and work, so it appears today, achieved widespread popularity amongst the middle classes precisely because it was so time-bound,…
The Nietzsche Legacy in Germany 1890-1990.
Overcoming Nietzsche
Nach dem Tod Gottes Varianten nietzscheanischer Religion
Nietzsche und die Deutschen
On Saul Friedl nder
Nazism, Culture and The Origins of Totalitarianism
The intense intellectual and emotional impact exerted by Hannah Arendt's The Origins of Totalitarianism upon a whole generation of readers during the 1950s and through the 1960s has been well documented and is in no need of rehearsal here.1 Any rereading of the work, any appreciation of its cultural significance and the role it has played, will have to seek the reasons for this. Its appearance satisfied a number of real, indeed urgent, through of…
Culture and Catastrophe
Brothers and strangers
George Mosse at 80
George Mosse's Europe has always been peopled by strange and powerful forces threatening to engulf its precious but fragile humanist heritage. He has throughout concerned himself with the deeper roots of nazism and its destruction of the Jews, always lifting it out of narrow, parochial contexts and linking it to wider - and usually unperceived - modalities of culture. Over the years the foci have become ever more broader, probing and daring. View…
Nach dem Tod Gottes Varianten nietzscheanischer Religion
Nietzsche und die Deutschen
George Mosse and Jewish History
George Mosse viewed history as a totality. It should come as no surprise, then, that his vision of the modern Jewish experience was in accordance with this predilection. Just as, for him, the political and the religious, the scientific and the aesthetic realms, were intertwined, deeply co-implicated, he refused to pigeon-hole and separate, or to use one of his favorite terms, "ghettoize" Jewish history and cut it off from the larger European whol…
Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
Hannah Arendt in Jerusalem
Comrade Klemperer
This article seeks to analyse the ‘later’ Victor Klemperer through his newly published diaries for the period, 1945–59. It attempts to unravel the complex reasons for his turn to communism — after many years of vehement opposition to that movement — and his life and fate as a citizen of the German Democratic Republic. It also maps Klemperer's fraught and changing attitudes towards that regime. At the same time, the article traces the tensions bet…
Arendt and The Origins of Totalitarianism
In Times of Crisis
Aschheim, Steven E. In Times of Crisis: Essays on European Culture, Germans, and Jews. Madison: University of Wisconsin Press, 2001.269 pp. $59.95 hardcover; $22.95 paperback. In Times of Crisis is a diverse collection of analytical, autobiographical and review essays that revisit some of the themes of Steven Aschheim's earlier work: the reception of Nietzsche and Hannah Arendt, German-Jewish intellectual history, and Holocaust historiography. Fo…
In Times of Crisis
The Metaphysical Psychologist
Beyond the Border
The modern German-Jewish experience through the rise of Nazism in 1933 was characterized by an explosion of cultural and intellectual creativity. Yet well after that history has ended, the influence of Weimar German-Jewish intellectuals has become ever greater. Hannah Arendt, Gershom Scholem, Theodor Adorno, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss have become household names and possess a continuing resonance. Beyond the Border seeks t…
At the Edges of Liberalism
The Palgrave Studies in Cultural and Intellectual History series has three primary aims: to close divides between intellectual and cultural approaches, thus bringing them into mutually enriching interactions; to encourage interdisciplinarity in intellectual and cultural history; and to globalize the field, both in geographical scope and in subjects and methods. This series is open to work on a range of modes of intellectual inquiry, including soc…
An Unwritten Letter from Victor Klemperer to Hannah Arendt and Gerhard Scholem
Victor Klemperer, Hannah Arendt, and Gerhard Scholem were three formidable German Jewish intellectuals with radically different conceptions of German identity, liberalism, Marxism, Jewishness, and Zionism and who confronted the great crises of their times with greatly divergent understandings and responses. Aschheim imagines an unwritten confrontational, yet also confessional and ultimately conciliatory, letter that a dying Klemperer addresses to…
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