Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation

By Pierre Birnbaum

In Geography of Hope, French sociologist and historian Pierre Birnbaum examines the work of the some of the prominent Jewish social scientists of the past two centuries in order to analyze their range of responses to the tensions between the Enlightenment call for universalism and the reality of Jewish particularism.

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804752931
• ISBN13: 9780804752930
• Release Date: January 2008
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 488 Pages
• Weight: 1.75 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.2" x 6.4" x 9.0"