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    • Publisher:
      Cambridge University Press
      Publication date:
      15 December 2009
      08 October 1998
      ISBN:
      9780511613272
      9780521630962
      9780521638777
      DOI:
      https://doi.org/10.1017/CBO9780511613272
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.41kg, 164 Pages
      Dimensions:
      (228 x 152 mm)
      Weight & Pages:
      0.24kg, 164 Pages
      • Subjects:
      Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
      Series:
      Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought (4)
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    Subjects:
    Judaism, Philosophy: General Interest, Religion, Philosophy, Religion: General Interest
    Series:
    Cambridge Studies in Religion and Critical Thought (4)
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    Freud's last book, Moses and Monotheism, was published in 1939 during one of the darkest periods in Jewish history. This difficult book has frequently been vilified and dismissed because Freud claims that Moses was not a Hebrew but an Egyptian, and that the Jews murdered Moses in the wilderness. Richard Bernstein argues that a close reading of Moses and Monotheism reveals an underlying powerful coherence in which Freud seeks to specify the distinctive character and contribution of the Jewish people. It is this character that has enabled the Jewish people to survive despite persecution and virulent anti-Semitism, and Freud proudly identifies himself with it. In his analysis of Freud's often misunderstood last work, Bernstein goes on to shows how Freud expands and deepens our understanding of a religious tradition by revealing its unconscious dynamics.

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    ‘The book’s greatest merit is the fact that it has once more drawn attention to the crucial relevance of Freud’s writings to any discussion of religion and modernity.’

    Source: Studies in Contemporary Jewry

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