The Afterlife of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal

by Michael Steinberg

Book Overview

In this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politics--of the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law.

Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1503632296
• ISBN13: 9781503632295
• Release Date: July 2022
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 240 Pages
• Weight: 0.80 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 5.9" x 8.9"