TY - BOOK ID - 137469366 TI - Memory of the West : The Contemporaneity of Forgotten Jewish Thinkers PY - 2004 SN - 9789004458765 9789042018235 PB - Leiden; Boston : BRILL DB - UniCat KW - Jewish philosophers KW - Philosophy KW - Philosophy, Modern KW - History KW - Benjamin, Walter, KW - Cohen, Hermann, KW - Kafka, Franz, KW - Influence. UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:137469366 AB - This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning. ER -