06248cam a2201057Ka 4500 ocn705945740 OCoLC 20200709055334.0 m d cr cnu---unuuu 110307s2008 nju ob 001 0 eng d N$T eng pn N$T EBLCP E7B YDXCP GZM OCLCQ OCLCA ACLSE CUS JSTOR HEBIS OCLCO OCLCF OCLCQ CUY DKDLA P@U COO OCLCO EUW OCLCO OCLCQ OCLCO OCLCQ OCL AZK OCLCO FIE OTZ ZCU MERUC OCLCQ JBG OCLCQ IOG OCLCO EZ9 U3W VTS ICG VT2 TXC OCLCO CPO RRP 773584515 857214455 876275738 961540977 962495027 984571118 993096757 1003116020 1057632790 9781400837656 (electronic bk.) 1400837650 (electronic bk.) 9780691136707 069113670X 355995 (N$T) (OCoLC)705945740 (OCoLC)773584515 (OCoLC)857214455 (OCoLC)876275738 (OCoLC)961540977 (OCoLC)962495027 (OCoLC)984571118 (OCoLC)993096757 (OCoLC)1003116020 (OCoLC)1057632790 22573/cttx3fr JSTOR e------ BM610 .L3935 2008eb BM610 (INTERNET) REL 040090 bisacsh PHI022000 bisacsh REL102000 bisacsh SOC049000 bisacsh 296.3/110904 22 MAIN Lazier, Benjamin, 1971- author. God interrupted : heresy and the European imagination between the world wars / Benjamin Lazier. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008. 1 online resource (xiv, 254 pages) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier data file rda The Gnostic return -- God interrupted: Romans in Weimar -- Overcoming Gnosticism -- After Auschwitz, earth -- Pantheism revisited -- The Pantheism controversy -- From God to nature -- Natural right and Judaism -- Redemption through sin -- Jewish Gnosticism -- Raising Pantheism -- From nihilism to nothingness -- Scholem's golem. Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-244) and index. Could the best thing about religion be the heresies it spawns? Leading intellectuals in interwar Europe thought so. They believed that they lived in a world made derelict by God's absence and the interruption of his call. In response, they helped resurrect gnosticism and pantheism, the two most potent challenges to the monotheistic tradition. In God Interrupted, Benjamin Lazier tracks the ensuing debates about the divine across confessions and disciplines. He also traces the surprising afterlives of these debates in postwar arguments about the environment, neoconservative politics, and heretical forms of Jewish identity. In lively, elegant prose, the book reorients the intellectual history of the era. God Interrupted also provides novel accounts of three German-Jewish thinkers whose ideas, seminal to fields typically regarded as wildly unrelated, had common origins in debates about heresy between the wars. Hans Jonas developed a philosophy of biology that inspired European Greens and bioethicists the world over. Leo Strauss became one of the most important and controversial political theorists of the twentieth century. Gershom Scholem, the eminent scholar of religion, radically recast what it means to be a Jew. Together they help us see how talk about God was adapted for talk about nature, politics, technology, and art. They alert us to the abiding salience of the divine to Europeans between the wars and beyond--even among those for whom God was long missing or dead. Print version record. Master record variable field(s) change: 050 Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993. Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982. Strauss, Leo. Jonas, Hans, 1903-1993 fast (OCoLC)fst00055537 Scholem, Gershom, 1897-1982 fast (OCoLC)fst01801519 Strauss, Leo. fast (OCoLC)fst00039644 Jonas, Hans Philosoph. swd Scholem, Gershom. swd Strauss, Leo. swd Gnosis gnd God (Judaism) History of doctrines 20th century. Jewish philosophy 20th century. Heresy History 20th century. Pantheism History 20th century. Gnosticism History 20th century. Europe Intellectual life 20th century. RELIGION Judaism Theology. bisacsh PHILOSOPHY Religious. bisacsh Gnosticism. fast (OCoLC)fst00943906 God (Judaism) History of doctrines. fast (OCoLC)fst00944160 Heresy. fast (OCoLC)fst00955449 Intellectual life. fast (OCoLC)fst00975769 Jewish philosophy. fast (OCoLC)fst01730516 Pantheism. fast (OCoLC)fst01052224 Europe. fast (OCoLC)fst01245064 Jodendom. gtt Gnosticisme. gtt Pantheïsme. gtt Afwezigheid van God. gtt Europa (geografie) gtt Pantheismus gnd Jüdische Philosophie gnd Häresie gnd Pantheismus-Streit gnd Gnosis. swd 1900-1999 fast Electronic books. History. fast (OCoLC)fst01411628 Print version: Lazier, Benjamin, 1971- God interrupted. Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, ©2008 9780691136707 (DLC) 2008005405 (OCoLC)212375652 ACLS Humanities E-Book (Series) EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=355995 ACLS Humanities E-Book ACLS HEB30740 EBL - Ebook Library EBLB EBL664572 ebrary EBRY ebr10443120 EBSCOhost EBSC 355995 Project MUSE MUSE muse36796 YBP Library Services YANK 3604915 92 N$T 50210 50210