Pushing Time Away: My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
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| Rating | : | 4.87 (707 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0060501332 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 288 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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. He is the bestselling author of Animal Liberation and The President of Good and Evil (Granta). Peter Singer is the Ira W. Decamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University's Center for Human Values
well-crafted tribute Charles Patterson Australian philosopher Peter Singer, now a professor of bioethics at Princeton University, has written a thoughtful, well-researched portrait of his grandfather, David Oppenheim, who perished in the Theresienstadt concentration camp in 1943. "We all know that six million Jews died," writes Singer in the Prologue, "but that is a mind-numbing statistic. I have a chance to portray one of them as an individual." His grandfather was a classical scholar in Vienna, a teacher of Greek and Latin at a prestigious gymnasium (high school), and an active participant in the city's psychoana. Atheism and Resurrection or the Timeless Power of Universal Values At the end of Peter Singers commemorative book for his grandfather there is a philosophical question: Given an atheist and naturalist worldview - am I able to do something good for a dead person by devoting my time to her thinking and by writing a book about and for her. Yes, says Singer, though a little bit restrained, we can do something for the dead by standing up for the values we share with them even if they unfortunately can't look down on us from a cloud.That's after a bit less than 300 pages in which life, thinking and time of David Oppenheim have been resurrected in o. Many Better Books On The Same Subject Richard A. Snyder Found it boring.
From The New Yorker David Oppenheim was a classical scholar, a member of Freud's inner circle, and a close friend of the psychoanalyst Alfred Adler. He illuminates the complexities of his grandparents' difficult but successful marriage, evokes the vibrant and disputatious life of early-twentieth-century Vienna, and offers a convincing picture of the intellectual and personal battles that dominated the early days of psychoanalysis. Singer reconstructs that life in fascinating detail. He was also a victim of the Holocaust, and until his grandson, the philosopher Peter Singer, discovered a trove of his letters and writings, his life had been almost completely forgotten. Copyright © 2005 The New Yorker. Singer's moving book, haunted from the beginning by its terrible end, constitutes a revolt against the anonymity of the Holocaust's grim statistics
Oppenheim, classical scholar, collaborator and then critic of Sigmund Freud, and friend and supporter of Alfred Adler, lived through the heights and depths of Vienna's twentieth-century intellectual and cultural history. More than fifty years later, philosopher Peter Singer set out to explore the life of the grandfather he never knew.Combining touching family biography with thoughtful reflection on both personal and public questions we face today, Pushing Time Away captures critical moments in Europe's transition from Belle Époque to the Great War, to the rise of Fascism, and the coming of World War II.. He perished in obscurity at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. "What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905