Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought by David N. Myers

Resisting History: Historicism and Its Discontents in German-Jewish Thought

Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the Ancient to the Modern

David N. Myers

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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 sig...

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