Resisting history : historicism and its discontents in German-Jewish thought /
David N. Myers.
- Princeton : Princeton University Press, c2003.
- x, 253 p. : ill.
- Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world .
- Jews, Christians, and Muslims from the ancient to the modern world .
Includes bibliographical references (p. 233-249) and index.
Jewish historicism and its discontents: an introduction -- Hermann Cohen and the problem of history at the fin de Siècle -- Franz Rosenzweig and the rise of theological anti-historicism -- Anti-historicism and the theological-political predicament in Weimar Germany: the case of Leo Strauss -- Isaac Breuer and the Jewish path to metageschichte -- From conclusion to opening: a word on influence, German Jews, and the cultural history of ideas.