The Jewish Response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War; Assimilation and Community: The Jews in Nineteenth-Century Europe; Modernity and Ambivalence; Divided Passions: Jewish Intellectuals and the Experience of Modernity; Between Redemption and Perdition: Modern Antisemitism and Jewish Identity; Antisemitism: The Longest Hatred

1992 ◽  
Vol 10 (3) ◽  
pp. 435-437
Author(s):  
D. Staritz
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Jewish Identity ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Culture ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals ◽  
Second World

The Jewish response to German Culture: From the Enlightenment to the Second World War

1987 ◽  
Vol 92 (2) ◽  
pp. 437
Author(s):  
Gary B. Cohen ◽  
Jehuda Reinharz ◽  
Walter Schatzberg
Keyword(s):  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Culture ◽  
The Enlightenment ◽  
Second World

Discourses of Civilization: The Shifting Course of a Modern Jewish Motif

2007 ◽  
pp. 24-35
Author(s):  
David N. Myers
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Social Integration ◽  
Great Depression ◽  
High Standard ◽  
Second World War ◽  
World War ◽  
German Jews ◽  
The Great Depression ◽  
Jewish Intellectuals ◽  
Second World

This chapter focuses on 'Jewish civilization', in which the term served the interests of Jewish intellectuals far better when counterpoised against the German Romantic notion of a distinct national culture. It probes the significance of 'civilization' at several key rhetorical moments during the last two hundred years. It also recounts the event when German Jews endeavoured to reach a high standard of civilization through concerted self-cultivation and social integration in the early nineteenth century. The chapter talks about European Jews who applied their own standards of 'civilization' to other 'oriental' Jews. It describes the years between the Great Depression and the outbreak of the Second World War, when Mordecai Kaplan equated Jewish peoplehood and civilization.

scholarly journals The Westphalian model and sovereign equality

2011 ◽  
Vol 38 (3) ◽  
pp. 641-660 ◽  
Author(s):  
PETER M. R. STIRK
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Eighteenth Century ◽  
International Relations ◽  
Second World War ◽  
Late Nineteenth Century ◽  
World War ◽  
Sovereign Equality ◽  
Normative Principle ◽  
Late Nineteenth ◽  
Second World

AbstractAlthough the Westphalian model takes many forms the association of Westphalian and sovereign equality is a prominent one. This article argues firstly that sovereign equality was not present as a normative principle at Westphalia. It argues further that while arguments for sovereign equality were present in the eighteenth century they did not rely on, or even suggest, a Westphalian provenance. It was, for good reasons, not until the late nineteenth century that the linkages of Westphalia and sovereign equality became commonplace, and even then sovereign equality and its linkage with Westphalia were disputed. It was not until after the Second World War, notably through the influential work of Leo Gross that the linkage of Westphalia and sovereign equality became not only widely accepted, but almost undisputed until quite recently. The article concludes by suggesting that not only did Gross bequeath a dubious historiography but that this historiography is an impediment to contemporary International Relations.

Introduction

2019 ◽  
pp. 1-15
Author(s):  
Cairns Craig
Keyword(s):  
Nineteenth Century ◽  
Second World War ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Simone De Beauvoir ◽  
World War ◽  
Christian Philosophy ◽  
Muriel Spark ◽  
Jean Paul ◽  
Intellectual Context ◽  
Second World

Muriel Spark has regularly been described as a Catholic novelist, given that her conversion to Catholicism was followed closely by the publication of her first novel, The Comforters, about the struggles of a Catholic convert. However, the intellectual context in which she came to maturity in the years after the Second World War was pervaded by the issues raised by existentialism, issues which surface directly in her novel The Mandelbaum Gate. Existentialism is now associated with Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir as an atheistic philosophy, but it began as a Christian philosophy inspired by nineteenth-century Danish philosopher Søren Kierkegaard. It was Kierkegaard’s Christian existentialism which shaped Spark’s own ‘leap to faith’ and his ironic style which shaped her own approach to the novel form.

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