The Jewess Pallas Athena: This Too a Theory of Modernity

by Barbara Hahn

Book Overview

"The Jewess Pallas Athena"--a line from a poem by Paul Celan. It is a provocative phrase, cutting across cultures and traditions. But it poses questions: How to reconstruct a culture that has been destroyed? How to conceive of history after the catastrophes of the twentieth century?

This book begins in the mid-eighteenth century with the first Jewish women to raise their voices in German. It ends two hundred years later, with another group...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0691171475
• ISBN13: 9780691171470
• Release Date: July 2016
• Publisher: Princeton University Press
• Length: 248 Pages
• Weight: 0.82 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.6" x 6.1" x 9.2"