Old Worlds, New Mirrors On Jewish Mysticism and Twentieth-Century Thought |
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| Author:
| Idel, Moshe |
| Series title: | Jewish Culture and Contexts Ser. |
| ISBN: | 978-0-8122-2210-4 |
| Publication Date: | Mar 2012 |
| Publisher: | University of Pennsylvania Press
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| Book Format: | Paperback |
| List Price: | USD $34.95 |
Book Description:
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In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.
In Old Worlds, New Mirrors Moshe Idel turns his gaze on figures as diverse as Walter Benjamin and Jacques Derrida, Franz Kafka and Franz Rosenzweig, Arnaldo Momigliano and Paul Celan, Abraham Heschel and George Steiner to reflect on their relationships to Judaism in a cosmopolitan, mostly European, context.