Geography of Hope: Exile, the Enlightenment, Disassimilation

by Pierre Birnbaum

Intellectuals of Jewish origin have long been well represented in the social sciences, although very few of the most prominent among them have devoted any of their work to the fact of being Jewish itself. At the same time, the founding role of Jewish theoreticians has been thought to derive from their dual position as both outsiders faced with the possibility of anti-Semitism and insiders assimilated into behaving according to the norms of a dominant...

• 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"