Description: "A group of modern Jewish intellectuals grappled with concepts of time and temporality. Martin Buber, Walter Benjamin, Hannah Arendt, and Paul Celan stand at the center of our contemporary understanding of religion, critical theory, politics, and literature. All four rejected notions of borders, territory, or national origin. Their path teaches us about three 'temporal turns'-in 1900, in 1945, and in 2000."--
Review Quotes:
Homo Temporalis is an important book for scholars of Jewish philosophy, German literature and philosophy, and continental philosophy. The book offers a strong argument, a rigorous reading of dozens of texts, and a broad discussion of German-Jewish thought and the question of time in modernity... an important and courageous inquiry about the relevance of German-Jewish thought to our present conditions.
-- "Chidushim: Studies in the History of German and Central European Jewry"