Winged words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the life of quotation

"This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the l...

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Main Author: Sax, Benjamin E. (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Leiden ; Boston Brill [2023]
Series:Supplements to the journal of Jewish thought and philosophy volume 35
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Online Access:DE-12
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Summary:"This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life of liturgy. It also explores how the legacy of Goethe can be used to develop new strata of religious and Jewish thought. We learn how quotation is the binding tissue that links language and thought, modernity and tradition, religion and secularism as a way of being in the world"--
Physical Description:1 Online-Ressource (X, 333 Seiten)
ISBN:9789004680210
DOI:10.1163/9789004680210

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