The Afterlife Of Moses: Exile, Democracy, Renewal (Memory In The Present) - 9781503631144

In The Afterlife of Moses, Steinberg addresses 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. Motivated in part by this recent period of reactionary insurgency in the US, Europe, and Israel, this work of intellectual history articulates the way in which a critique of myths of origin as a principle of democratic government, affect, and citizenship has equal relevance in these places and equal fragility--

• | Author: Michael Steinberg
• | Publisher: Stanford University Press
• | Publication Date: Jul 19, 2022
• | Number of Pages: 240 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Literary Criticism
• | ISBN-10: 1503631141
• | ISBN-13: 9781503631144