| Description |
xii, 185 pages ; 23 cm |
| Series |
Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture |
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Stanford studies in Jewish history and culture.
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| Contents |
1. Speaking About the Other -- 2. Peguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare -- 3. One Truth, Many Truths -- 4. Religion and Politics -- App. A. The Secret of the Man of Forty -- App. B. The Tractate Shabbath, pp. 88a-b -- App. C. Supplementary Texts from "Notre jeunesse" |
| Summary |
This book grapples with a wide range of contemporary ethical and religious issues through the lens of the reflections of Charles Peguy on his friend and mentor Bernard-Lazare. Both Peguy, a leading French Catholic poet and philosopher, and Bernard-Lazare, an iconoclastic Jewish intellectual, were passionately involved in the Dreyfus Affair, which forms the background of these reflections |
| Notes |
Bibliography: p175-179. - Includes index |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages [175]-179 and index |
| Subject |
Lazare, Bernard, 1865-1903 -- In literature.
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Péguy, Charles, 1873-1914. Notre jeunesse.
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Infinite.
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Judaism -- Doctrines.
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Religious thought -- Modern period, 1500-
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| LC no. |
97019076 |
| ISBN |
0804730059 (alk. paper) |
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