Leon Wieseltier
Biographic Data
| ID | 1110563 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Leon Wieseltier |
| GIVEN NAMES | Leon |
| FAMILY NAME | Wieseltier |
| SIGNATURE | WIESELTIER L |
| AFFILIATIONS | Harvard University Press |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2006 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Yehuda Amichai's Old-New Words
Even in one's enthusiasms, one must be wary of legends. They are impediments to understanding. Haydn was not just diligent and sweet; Wilde was not essentially frivolous; Mondrian never silenced his heart; Frost was anything but a country sage. We invent the masters we need. Reverence, too, is an interpretation. Sometimes the artist is complicit in the myth that establishes his reputation, and even his immortality; and it is the duty of his admir…
Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds
Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds Leon Wieseltier (bio) In recent decades the American sense of life has fallen under the spell of matter. In realm after realm of our existence, our explanations more and more adduce material causes, particularly biological ones and economic ones. Riddles of psychology are solved with references to biology, especially to genes and to Darwin; riddles of politics and international relations are solved with references to e…
The Joy of Thought
EVERY TISHA B'Av I PERMIT myself a fugitive smile. What provokes me to transgress against the lachrymosity of the day is not my satisfaction that no Temple in Jerusalem, no holy slaughterhouse, and no gluttonous clerisy exists to interfere with the refinement of my religion. I am quite sure that my religion would not have developed into the immensity of a civilization had it remained imprisoned in what historians call a cultic center. was in the …
Pas de panique
Les trouble-fête
When Deterrence Fails
Antisemitism today a symposium
Etwas Uber Die Judische Historik
Modern Jewish historiography -the study of Jewish sources, by Jews, according to shared methods of research and interpretation was launched in the last century by an uncommonly learned twenty-three-year-old German Jew called Leopold Zunz. Of course he was not the first to submit Jewish texts to the godless rigors of historical criticism. In sixteenth-century Italy Azariah de Rossi had skillfully applied the scholarly procedures of Biondi and the …
Antisemitism today a symposium
When Deterrence Fails
Etwas Uber Die Judische Historik
Modern Jewish historiography -the study of Jewish sources, by Jews, according to shared methods of research and interpretation was launched in the last century by an uncommonly learned twenty-three-year-old German Jew called Leopold Zunz. Of course he was not the first to submit Jewish texts to the godless rigors of historical criticism. In sixteenth-century Italy Azariah de Rossi had skillfully applied the scholarly procedures of Biondi and the …
Etwas Uber Die Judische Historik
Modern Jewish historiography -the study of Jewish sources, by Jews, according to shared methods of research and interpretation was launched in the last century by an uncommonly learned twenty-three-year-old German Jew called Leopold Zunz. Of course he was not the first to submit Jewish texts to the godless rigors of historical criticism. In sixteenth-century Italy Azariah de Rossi had skillfully applied the scholarly procedures of Biondi and the …
Antisemitism today a symposium
When Deterrence Fails
Les trouble-fête
The Joy of Thought
EVERY TISHA B'Av I PERMIT myself a fugitive smile. What provokes me to transgress against the lachrymosity of the day is not my satisfaction that no Temple in Jerusalem, no holy slaughterhouse, and no gluttonous clerisy exists to interfere with the refinement of my religion. I am quite sure that my religion would not have developed into the immensity of a civilization had it remained imprisoned in what historians call a cultic center. was in the …
Pas de panique
Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds
Jewish Bodies, Jewish Minds Leon Wieseltier (bio) In recent decades the American sense of life has fallen under the spell of matter. In realm after realm of our existence, our explanations more and more adduce material causes, particularly biological ones and economic ones. Riddles of psychology are solved with references to biology, especially to genes and to Darwin; riddles of politics and international relations are solved with references to e…
Yehuda Amichai's Old-New Words
Even in one's enthusiasms, one must be wary of legends. They are impediments to understanding. Haydn was not just diligent and sweet; Wilde was not essentially frivolous; Mondrian never silenced his heart; Frost was anything but a country sage. We invent the masters we need. Reverence, too, is an interpretation. Sometimes the artist is complicit in the myth that establishes his reputation, and even his immortality; and it is the duty of his admir…
Philosophy (6 works) · Art (5 works) · Political science (5 works) · Judaism (4 works) · Theology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Literature (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)