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Author:   Piotr Nowak
Publisher:   Anthem Press
Imprint:   Anthem Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.30cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 22.90cm
Weight:   0.320kg
ISBN:  

9781839996504

ISBN 10:   1839996501
Pages:   234
Publication Date:   11 November 2025
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

Preface; 1. The Chosen Ones (St. Paul); 2. The Secret of the Scapegoat (René Girard); 3. Making a Jew into a Christian (William Shakespeare); 4. There Should Be Time No Longer (D. H. Lawrence); 5. To Look Upon His Face and Yet Not Die (Jacob Taubes); 6. Ex oriente lux? (Joseph Roth, Primo Levi); 7. Pilloried by Necessity (Jean Améry); 8. German Rubble (W. G. Sebald); 9. Long Live! (K. K. Baczyński); 10. The Living against the Dead (Czesław Miłosz); 11. The Child of War (Friedrich Nietzsche, Krzysztof Michalski); 12. Plenty Coups and the End of the World (Jonathan Lear); 13. They Refugees (Hannah Arendt); 14. The Remainder of Christianity (Vasily Rozanov, Giorgio Agamben, Martin Heidegger); Bibliography; Index of Persons.

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“This is a deeply thought provoking set of essays, on writers and texts and themes of crucial significance, by one of our most stimulating and original contemporary thinkers.” —Prof. Thomas L. Pangle, Joe R. Long Endowed Chair in Democratic Studies, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Co-Director Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. Kronos. Philosophical Journal Interpretation 'About The New Possibilities of Another Massacre'. Barbara Schabowska talks with Piotr Nowak Taipei International Book Exhibition in Taiwan (2023) “The book is a collection of essays that engage with a range of topics and authors dealing with Western civilization in the context of its Jewish and Christian heritage, the horrors of the twentieth century and its current crisis. Nowak’s voice and intellectual deliberations and choices are indicative of an intelligence who does not need to fit in with any consensus. This is what a reader wants from a collection of essays: to be engaged by a personality who it is worth being engaged by on a topic that is worth spending some time on.” — Dr Cristaudo Wayne, Charles Darwin University, Australia Piotr Nowak’s passionate, thoughtful, and elegantly written book is not a systematic treatise but a literary spider’s web with many intricately related threads that can be difficult to follow but that return always to the guiding motif of the Jewish “idea of chosenness,” the “antinomies” it contains, and its meaning today (x), after secularization and the Holocaust. —Kronos. Philosophical Journal Nowak identifies a purely theological concept as key to understanding the Holocaust. —Interpretation

“This is a deeply thought provoking set of essays, on writers and texts and themes of crucial significance, by one of our most stimulating and original contemporary thinkers.” —Prof. Thomas L. Pangle, Joe R. Long Endowed Chair in Democratic Studies, Department of Government, University of Texas at Austin, Co-Director Thomas Jefferson Center for the Study of Core Texts and Ideas. “The book is a collection of essays that engage with a range of topics and authors dealing with Western civilization in the context of its Jewish and Christian heritage, the horrors of the twentieth century and its current crisis. Nowak’s voice and intellectual deliberations and choices are indicative of an intelligence who does not need to fit in with any consensus. This is what a reader wants from a collection of essays: to be engaged by a personality who it is worth being engaged by on a topic that is worth spending some time on.” — Dr Cristaudo Wayne, Charles Darwin University, Australia Piotr Nowak’s passionate, thoughtful, and elegantly written book is not a systematic treatise but a literary spider’s web with many intricately related threads that can be difficult to follow but that return always to the guiding motif of the Jewish “idea of chosenness,” the “antinomies” it contains, and its meaning today (x), after secularization and the Holocaust. —Kronos. Philosophical Journal Nowak identifies a purely theological concept as key to understanding the Holocaust. —Interpretation 'About The New Possibilities of Another Massacre'. Barbara Schabowska talks with Piotr Nowak Taipei International Book Exhibition in Taiwan (2023) TLS

Author Information

Piotr Nowak is Professor of Philosophy at the Bialystok University in Poland, deputy editorinchief of the annual Kronos. Philosophical Journal, and the author of The Ancients and Shakespeare on Time: Some Remarks on the War of Generations (2014). He published among others in Philosophy and Literature (Gods and Children: Shakespeare Reads The Prince, vol. 41, no. 1A, 2017).

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