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03279aam a2200409 i 4500 001 26C0602E2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48 003 SILO 005 20190212010150 008 180731t20182018inu b s001 0 eng 010 $a 2018031600 020 $a 1557538301 020 $a 9781557538307 035 $a (OCoLC)1020030064 040 $a DLC $b eng $e rda $c DLC $d YDX $d IPL $d OCLCF $d YDX $d OCLCO $d YUS $d SILO 042 $a pcc 050 00 $a PT2635.O84 $b Z795 2018. 082 00 $a 833/.912 $2 23 100 1 $a Piloiu, Rares G., $d 1973- $e author. 245 14 $a The quest for redemption : $b Central European Jewish thought in Joseph Roth's works / $c by Rares G. Piloiu. 264 1 $a West Lafayette, Indiana : $b Purdue University Press, $c [2018] 300 $a xi, 338 pages ; $c 23 cm. 490 1 $a Comparative cultural studies 520 $a "The Quest for Redemption: Central European Jewish Thought in Joseph Roth's Works by Rares Piloiu fills an important gap in Roth scholarship, placing Roth's major works of fiction for the first time in the context of a generational interest in religious redemption among the Jewish intellectuals of Central Europe. In it, Piloiu argues that Roth's challenging, often contradictory and ambivalent literary output is the result of an attempt to recast moral, political, and historical realities of an empirically observable world in a new, religiously transfigured reality through the medium of literature. This diegetic recasting of phenomenological encounters with the real is an expression of Roth's belief that, since the self and the world are in a continuing state of crisis, issuing from their separation in modernity, a restoration of their unity is necessary to redeem the historical existence of individuals and communities alike. Piloiu notes, however, that Roth's enterprise in this is not unique to his work, but rather is shared by an entire generation of Central European Jewish intellectuals. This generation, disillusioned by modernity's excessive secularism, rationalism, and nationalism, sought a radical solution in the revival of mystical religious traditions--above all, in the Judaic idea of messianic redemption. Their use of the Chasidic notion of redemption was highly original in that it stripped the notion of its original theological meaning and applied it to the secular experience of reality. As a result, Roth's quest for redemption is a quest for salvation of the individual not outside, but within, history" -- $c Provided by publisher. 504 $a Includes bibliographical references (page 301-320) and index. 600 10 $a Roth, Joseph, $d 1894-1939 $x Criticism and interpretation. 600 17 $a Roth, Joseph, $d 1894-1939. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00049252 650 0 $a Redemption in literature. 650 0 $a Jews $x Identity. 650 0 $a Ethnicity in literature. 650 7 $a Ethnicity in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00916067 650 7 $a Jews $x Identity. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst00983278 650 7 $a Redemption in literature. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01092255 655 7 $a Criticism, interpretation, etc. $2 fast $0 (OCoLC)fst01411635 830 0 $a Comparative cultural studies. 941 $a 1 952 $l OVUX522 $d 20191120032934.0 956 $a http://locator.silo.lib.ia.us/search.cgi?index_0=id&term_0=26C0602E2E9411E9B5CB1E4197128E48Initiate Another SILO Locator Search