Emanzipation Nach der Emanzipation

The volume begins where for German Judaism the "Age of Emancipation" ends. It sets itself the task of systematizing the unresolved tension within all emancipatory hopes - for the first third of the 20th century. In more detail than known before different disciplinary approaches open up new perspectives on the reflections that this tension finds in the different artistic, religious, political and literary movements, in visual art and museum didactic programs. From philosophical,...
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The volume begins where for German Judaism the "Age of Emancipation" ends. It sets itself the task of systematizing the unresolved tension within all emancipatory hopes - for the first third of the 20th century. In more detail than known before different disciplinary approaches open up new perspectives on the reflections that this tension finds in the different artistic, religious, political and literary movements, in visual art and museum didactic programs. From philosophical, psychological and aesthetic viewpoints the volume analyses the results of the emancipation process and its assessment, in the eyes of German Jews, as a successful or failed project.