Pushing Time Away

′What binds us pushes time away.′So wrote David Oppenheim‚ scholar‚ collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud; participant in the intellectual and cultural highs and lows of early 20th−century Vienna‚ victim of the Nazis‚ and grandfather of philosopher Peter Singer. Fifty years after Oppenheim′s death‚ Singer discovered a wealth of written materials‚ including intimate personal letters his grandparents had sent to each...
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′What binds us pushes time away.′So wrote David Oppenheim‚ scholar‚ collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud; participant in the intellectual and cultural highs and lows of early 20th−century Vienna‚ victim of the Nazis‚ and grandfather of philosopher Peter Singer. Fifty years after Oppenheim′s death‚ Singer discovered a wealth of written materials‚ including intimate personal letters his grandparents had sent to each other‚ which provided startling insights into their relationship − and a vivid picture of the man Singer never met. In recreating his grandfather′s life‚ Singer gives readers a rare glimpse into the controversial‚ vibrant‚ and most intensely Jewish intellectual life in Europe.