The Afterlife of Moses – Exile, Democracy, Renewal Steinberg Paperback

Name: The Afterlife of Moses – Exile, Democracy, Renewal Steinberg Paperback
Brand: Stanford University Press

Stanford University Press

The Afterlife of MosesExile, Democracy, Renewal\nAuthor(s): Michael Steinberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503632295, 978-1503632295\nSynopsis\nIn this elegant and personal new work, Michael P. Steinberg reflects on the story of Moses and the Exodus as a foundational myth of politicsof the formation not of a nation but of a political community grounded in universal law. \n\n Modern renderings of the story of Moses, from Michelangelo to Spinoza to Freud to Schoenberg to Derrida, have seized on the story's ambivalences, its critical and self-critical power. These literal returns form the first level of the afterlife of Moses. They spin a persistent critical and self-critical thread of European and transatlantic art and argument. And they enable the second strand of Steinberg's argument, namely the depersonalization of the Moses and Exodus story, its evolving abstraction and modulation into a va.