Memory of the West : The Contemporaneity of Forgotten Jewish Thinkers

Mate, Reyes 2004 Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495 , Vol. 163 ( Serie ) Leiden; Boston : BRILL Englisch 9789004458765 | 9789042018235 | BRILL9789004458765 Abstract

This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.