{"product_id":"freud-and-monotheism-9780823280025","title":"Freud and Monotheism","description":"\u003cb\u003eBook Synopsis\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003eOver the last few decades, vibrant debates regarding post-secularism have found inspiration and provocation in the works of Sigmund Freud. A new interest in psychoanalysis''s relation to society has emerged, allowing Freud's account of the interdependence of religion, ethics, and violence to gain currency in recent debates on modernity. In that context, the pivotal role of Freud's masterpiece, \u003ci\u003eMoses and Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e, is widely recognized. \u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFreud and Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e critically examines a range of discourses surrounding Freud and Moses, taking as its entry point Freud's relations to Judaism, his conception of tradition and history, his theory of the mind, and his model of transgenerational inheritance. Highlighting the broad impact of \u003ci\u003eMoses and Monotheism\u003c\/i\u003e across the humanities, contributors from philosophy, comparative literature, cultural studies, Jewish studies, psychoanalysis, and Egyptology come together to illuminate Freud's book and the modern world with which\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eTable of Contents\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIntroduction \u003cbr\u003e Karen Feldman and Gilad Sharvit \u003cbr\u003e “Why [the Jews] have Attracted this Undying Hatred” \u003cbr\u003e Richard Bernstein \u003cbr\u003e “Geistigkeit”: A Problematic Concept \u003cbr\u003e Joel Whitebook \u003cbr\u003e Heine and Freud: Deferred Action and the Concept of History \u003cbr\u003e Willi Goetschel \u003cbr\u003e Freud’s Moses: Murder, Exile, and the Question of Belonging \u003cbr\u003e Gabriele Schwab \u003cbr\u003e A Leap of Faith into \u003ci\u003eMoses\u003c\/i\u003e: Freud’s Invitation to Evenly Suspended Attention \u003cbr\u003e Yael Segalovitz \u003cbr\u003e Freud, Sellin, and the Murder of Moses \u003cbr\u003e Jan Assmann \u003cbr\u003e Creating the Jews: Mosaic Discourse in Freud and Hosea \u003cbr\u003e Ronald Hendel \u003cbr\u003e Is Psychic Phylogenesis only a Phantasy? New Biological Developments in Trauma Inheritance \u003cbr\u003e Catherine Malabou \u003cbr\u003e Moses and the Burning Bush: Leadership and Potentiality in the Bible \u003cbr\u003e Gilad Sharvit \u003cbr\u003e Notes \u003cbr\u003e List of Contributors \u003cbr\u003e Index\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Fordham University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49406151819607,"sku":"9780823280025","price":71.1,"currency_code":"GBP","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0817\/1739\/5799\/files\/9780823280025.jpg?v=1730494706","url":"https:\/\/bookcurl.com\/products\/freud-and-monotheism-9780823280025","provider":"Book Curl","version":"1.0","type":"link"}