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Bijbel, Biografie, Israël

Anthony Julius – Abraham

Anthony Julius Abraham recensie, review en informatie biografie van de aartsvader van de Israëlieten . Op 11 februari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie Abraham, The First Jew, geschreven door de professor aan Faculty of Laws, University College in Londen. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Anthony Julius Abraham recensie, review en informatie

  • “This brilliantly original and often deeply moving book tells the story of Abraham so as to set out a narrative of ‘faith’ itself—the relation of faith to reason, the abiding tension between claimed conviction and inescapable or tragic questioning, the way in which, like Abraham, we may be both ‘residents’ and ‘aliens’ in the world of discourse about God. A unique and searching masterpiece.” (Rowan Williams, theologian and poet, University of Cambridge)
  • “Fascinating and profound, scholarly and playful, philosophical and aesthetic, Anthony Julius’s Abraham is an original and compelling hybrid that brings Abraham to life and through him discusses the nature of faith and his own personal philosophy.”(Simon Sebag Montefiore, author of Jerusalem: The Biography)

Anthony Julius Abraham

Abraham

The First Jew

  • Auteur: Anthony Julius (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 11 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 392 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Abraham de aartsvader van de Joden

The story of Abraham, the first Jew, portrayed as two lives lived by one person, paralleling the contradictions in Judaism throughout its history.

In this new biography of Abraham, Judaism’s foundational figure, Anthony Julius offers an account of the origins of a fundamental struggle within Judaism between skepticism and faith, critique and affirmation, thinking for oneself and thinking under the direction of another. Julius describes Abraham’s life as two separate lives, and as a version of the collective life of the Jewish people.

Abraham’s first life is an early adulthood of questioning the polytheism of his home city of Ur Kasdim until its ruler, Nimrod, condemns him to death and he is rescued, he believes, by a miracle. In his second life, Abraham’s focus is no longer on critique but rather on conversion and on his leadership over his growing household, until God’s command that he sacrifice his son Isaac. This test, the Akedah (or “Binding”), ends with another miracle, as he believes, but as Julius argues, it is also a catastrophe for Abraham. The Akedah represents for him an unsurpassed horizon—and in Jewish life thereafter. This book focuses on Abraham as leader of the first Jewish project, Judaism, and the unresolvable, insurmountable crisis that the Akedah represents—both in his leadership and in Judaism itself.

Anthony Julius was born 16 July 1956 in London. He is deputy chairman of the international law firm Mishcon de Reya and a professor in the Faculty of Laws, University College London. He is the author of T. S. Eliot, Anti-Semitism and Literary Form, among other books. He lives in London, United Kingdom.

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Antropologie, Biografie

Noga Arikha – Franz Boas biografie

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie boek over de in Duitsland geboren, Amerikaanse antropoloog. Op 13 mei 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie van een van de grondleggers van de antropologie Fraz Boas. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave.

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie recensie, review en informatie

  • “Noga Arikha presents a wonderfully three-dimensional portrait of Franz Boas: family man, secular German Jew, cosmopolitan polymath, scientific anti-racist, a model of empathy and tolerance, and a beacon of light in challenging times.” (Adam Kuper, author)
  • “Noga Arikha successfully depicts the life, work, thought, and influence of Franz Boas, the towering figure who shaped the development of modern American anthropology. She perceptively stresses his lifelong battle against racism, ethnocentrism, eugenics, and for freedom of thought.” (Herbert S. Lewis, author)

Noga Arikha Franz Boas biografie

Franz Boas

In Praise of Open Minds

  • Auteur: Noga Arika 
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 13 mei 2025
  • Omvang: 280 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $  28,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van antropoloog Franz Boas

A thought-provoking account of the life and work of Franz Boas and his influential role in shaping modern anthropology

Franz Boas born on 9 July 1858 in Minden, Germany en died 21 December 1942 in New York City is widely acknowledged for his pioneering work in the field of cultural anthropology. His rigorous studies of variations across societies were aimed at demonstrating that cultures and peoples were not shaped by biological predispositions. This book traces Boas’s life and intellectual passions from his roots in Germany and his move to the United States in 1884, partly in response to growing antisemitism in Germany, to his work with First Nations communities and his influential role as a teacher, mentor, and engaged activist who inspired an entire generation.

Drawing from Boas’s numerous but rarely read writings, Noga Arikha brings to life the man and the ideas he developed about the complex interplay of mind and culture, biology and history, language and myth. She provides a comprehensive picture of the cultural contexts in which he worked, of his personal and professional relationships, and of his revolutionary approach to fieldwork. He was celebrated in his lifetime for the cultural relativism he developed and the arguments he marshaled against entrenched racialism. But his was a constant battle, and Arikha shows how urgently relevant his voice and legacy have become again today.

Noga Arikha is a research associate at the European University Institute in Florence. She is the author of The Ceiling Outside: The Science and Experience of the Disrupted Mind and Passions and Tempers: A History of the Humours. She currently lives in Florence, Italy.

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Biografie, Film, filmboek

Kenneth Turan – Louis B. Mayer en Irving Thalberg

Kenneth Turan Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg recensie, review en informatie biografie van de Amerikaanse filmproducenten. Op 4 february 2025 verschijnt in de reeks Jewish Lives een nieuwe biografie van de joodse filmproducenten Louis B. Mayer en Irving Thalberg. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Kenneth Turan Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg recensie, review en informatie

  • “Mr. Turan has provided an entertaining primer on the men and their studio. … Sharply observant.” (Farran Smith Nehme, Wall Street Journal)
  • “A record of a paradigm-shifting partnership, this is an entertaining, literate and beautifully crafted contribution to Hollywood history.” (Charles Arrowsmith, Los Angeles Times)

Kenneth Turan Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg

Louis B. Mayer and Irvine Thalberg

The Whole Equation

  • Auteur: Kenneth Turan (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie, filmboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 4 februari 2025
  • Omvang: 392 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van filmproducenten Louis B. Mayer en Irving Thalberg

Kenneth Turan brings to life the extraordinary partnership of Louis B. Mayer and Irving Thalberg and their role in creating the film industry as we know it.

One was a tough junkman’s son, the other a cosseted mama’s boy, but they dreamed the same mighty dream: that the right movies could make a profit and change both the culture and individual lives. Sharing a religion and an evangelical zeal for film, Louis B. Mayer (1884–1957) and Irving Thalberg (1899–1936) were unlikely partners in one of the most significant collaborations in movie history. Over the course of their decade-long relationship, as key players at Metro-Goldwyn-Mayer and major players in Hollywood, they joined forces in redefining and mastering the template for the film industry.

Mayer, older by more than a dozen years, was the business-minded face of the studio, while Thalberg worked closely with the creative corps, especially writers; together they rarely set a foot wrong. And while Mayer initially viewed Thalberg as the son he never had, the two would go from passionate friends to near enemies before Thalberg’s shocking death at the age of thirty-seven.

In the first joint biography of the two men in fifty years, film critic Kenneth Turan traces their fraught relationship while examining the complicated history of Jewish identity in Hollywood.

Kenneth Turan was the film critic of the Los Angeles Times for nearly thirty years and was also a film critic for National Public Radio. He is the author of Not to Be Missed: Fifty-Four Favorites from a Lifetime of Film, among other books. He lives in Los Angeles, California.

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Geschiedenisboeken, Israël, Jordanië, Midden-Oosten, Palestina

Nir Arielli – The Dead Sea

Nir Arielli The Dead Sea review, recensie en informatie boek over de 10.000 jarige geschiedenis van de Dode Zee. Op 28 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press The Dead Sea, A 10,000 Year History, geschreven door historicus Nir Arielli. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Nir Arielli The Dead Sea review, recensie en informatie

  • “This is a fascinating and highly readable account of the Dead Sea from remote geological ages to the present. Arielli demonstrates the importance of the Dead Sea throughout history, ending with the current environmental and political crisis created by the dramatic drop in its water level.” (Jodi Magness, author of Jerusalem through the Ages)
  • “The demise of the Dead Sea is a man-made disaster that requires cooperation to reverse. Arielli’s extensive research on the Dead Sea’s religious, environmental, economic and conflict dimensions is a must read for anyone interested in joining the effort to save this natural wonder.” (Gidon Bromberg, Israel Director, EcoPeace Middle East)

Nir Arielli The Dead Sea

The Dead Sea

A 10,000 Year History

  • Auteur: Nir Arielli
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 28 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 304 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 35,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek van Nir Arielli over de geschiedenis van de Dode Zee

A human history of one of the planet’s most iconic lakes, and the civilizations that surrounded its shores.

The Dead Sea is a place of many contradictions. Hot springs around the lake are famed for their healing properties, though its own waters are deadly to most lifeforms—even so, civilizations have built ancient cities and hilltop fortresses around its shores for centuries. The protagonists in its story are not only Jews and Arabs, but also Greeks, Nabataeans, Romans, Crusaders and Mamluks. Today it has become a tourist hotspot, but its drying basin is increasingly under threat.

In this panoramic account, Nir Arielli explores the history of the Dead Sea from the first Neolithic settlements to the present day. Moving through the ages, Arielli reveals the religious, economic, military, and scientific importance of the lake, which has been both a source of great wealth and a site of war. The Dead Sea weaves together a tapestry of the lake’s human stories—and amidst environmental degradation and renewed conflict, makes a powerful case for why it should be saved.

Nir Arielli is professor of international history at the University of Leeds. He is the author of From Byron to bin Laden: A History of Foreign War Volunteers and Fascist Italy and the Middle East. He has also written contemporary political commentary for the Globe Post, Haaretz, and the Conversation.

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Biografie, Tweede Wereldoorlog

Ruth Franklin – The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Ruth Franklin The Many Lives of Anne Frank review, recensie en informatie van de inhoud van de biografie. Op 27 januari 2025 verschijnt bij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de nieuwe biografie van Anne Frank geschreven door de Amerikaanse schrijfster Ruth Franklin. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van de biografie, de auteur en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ruth Franklin The Many Lives of Anne Frank review, recensie en informatie

  • “With comprehensive research and stunning clarity of thought, Ruth Franklin has peeled back all the layers that lie between life and art, memory and history, icon and human being. This tour de force sets the standard for anyone thinking about Anne Frank for years to come.” (Dara Horn, author of People Love Dead Jews)
  • “Ruth Franklin meets Anne Frank incisively on her own terms, first and foremost as a writer. She executes a difficult balancing act with subtlety, returning the diary to its context while also amplifying the voice of its author.” (Stacy Schiff, author of The Revolutionary: Samuel Adams)

Ruth Franklin The Many Lives of Anne Frank

The Many Lives of Anne Frank

Jewish Lives

  • Auteur: Ruth Franklin (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 27 januari 2025
  • Omvang: 440 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 30,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van Anne Frank geschreven door Ruth Franklin

In this innovative biography, Ruth Franklin explores the transformation of Anne Frank (1929–1945) from ordinary teenager to icon, shedding new light on the young woman whose diary of her years in hiding, now translated into more than seventy languages, is the most widely read work of literature to arise from the Holocaust.

Comprehensively researched but experimental in spirit, this book chronicles and interprets Anne’s life as a Jew in Amsterdam during World War II while also telling the story of the diary—its multiple drafts, its discovery, its reception, and its message for today’s world. Writing alongside Anne rather than over her, Franklin explores the day-to-day perils of the Holocaust in the Netherlands as well as Anne’s ultimate fate, restoring her humanity and agency in all their messiness, heroism, and complexity.

With antisemitism once again in the news, The Many Lives of Anne Frank takes a fresh and timely look at the debates around Anne’s life and work, including the controversial adaptations of the diary, Anne’s evolution as a fictional character, and the ways her story and image have been politically exploited. Franklin reveals how Anne has been understood and misunderstood, both as a person and as an idea, and opens up new avenues for interpreting her life and writing in today’s hyperpolarized world.

Ruth Franklin is the author of A Thousand Darknesses: Lies and Truth in Holocaust Fiction, a finalist for the Sami Rohr Prize for Jewish Literature, and of Shirley Jackson: A Rather Haunted Life, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Biography. She lives in Brooklyn, New York.

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Biografie, Duitse schrijver, Sprookjes

Ann Schmiesing – The Brothers Grimm

Ann Schmiesing The Brothers Grimm recensie, review en informatie biografie van de Duitse sprookjesverzamelaars en schrijvers de gebroeders Grimm. Op 29 oktober 2024 verschijnt bij Yale University de Engelstalige biografie van de gebroeders Grimm, geschreven door Ann Schmiesing. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Een Nederlandse vertaling van de biografie is niet verkrijgbaar.

Ann Schmiesing The Brothers Grimm recensie, review en informatie

  • “First-rate. . . . Rich in history and insight, this stands as the new authoritative biography on the famed fairy tale collectors.” (Publishers Weekly)
  • “Ann Schmiesing’s The Brothers Grimm: A Biography is the most thorough and important study of Jacob and Wilhelm Grimm in the English-speaking world. It demonstrates that the talented brothers were more than collectors of wondrous fairy tales. They were gifted men of integrity once upon a revolutionary time. This book is a major accomplishment.” (Jack Zipes, University of Minnesota)

Ann Schmiesing The Brothers Grimm

The Brothers Grimm

  • Auteur: Ann Schmiesing (Verenigde Staten)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 29 oktober 2024
  • Omvang: 360 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van de biografie van de gebroeders Grimm

More than two hundred years ago, the German brothers Jacob Grimm (1785–1863) and Wilhelm Grimm (1786–1859) published a collection of fairy tales that remains famous the world over. It has been translated into some 170 languages—more than any other German book—and the Brothers Grimm are among the top dozen most translated authors in the world. In addition to collecting tales, the Grimms were mythographers, linguists, librarians, civil servants, and above all the closest of brothers, but until now, the full story of their lifelong endeavor to preserve and articulate a German cultural identity has not been well known.

Drawing on deep archival research and decades of scholarship, Ann Schmiesing tells the affecting story of how the Grimms’ ambitious projects gave the brothers a sense of self-preservation through the atrocities of the Napoleonic Wars and a series of personal losses. They produced a vast corpus of work on mythology and medieval literature, embarked on a monumental German dictionary project, and broke scholarly ground with Jacob’s linguistic discovery known as Grimm’s Law. Setting their story against a rich historical backdrop, Schmiesing offers a fresh consideration of the profound and yet complicated legacy of the Brothers Grimm.

Ann Schmiesing is professor of German and Scandinavian studies at the University of Colorado Boulder. She is the author of Disability, Deformity, and Disease in the Grimms’ Fairy Tales. She lives in Longmont, Colorado.

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Braziliaanse schrijfster, Brazilië, Feministische boeken

Djamila Ribeiro – Where We Stand

Djamila Ribeiro Where We Stand recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het feministische boek uit Brazilië. Op 27 augustus 2024 verschijnt bij Yale University Press de Engelse vertaling van het essay van de Braziliaanse feminist en activist Djamila Ribeiro. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijfster en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar.

Djamila Ribeiro Where We Stand recensie en informatie

  • “A manifesto on an individual’s social standing and its effect on what is said as well as what is heard. . . . Those seeking a way to decolonize discussions of gender equality will find this slim volume rewarding.” (Bethanne Patrick, Los Angeles Times)
  • “Djamila Ribeiro’s influential book Where We Stand boldly claims a space for Black feminism in Brazil. This long-awaited translation offers new audiences a rare opportunity to encounter the rich ideas of an emerging generation of Black women academics and activists who are fearless in pushing for social change.” (Patricia Hill Collins, author of Black Feminist Thought)

Djamila Ribeiro Where We Stand

Where We Stand

  • Auteur: Djamila Ribeiro (Brazilië)
  • Soort boek: feministisch boek
  • Engelse vertaling: Padma Viswanathan
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 27 augustus 2024
  • Omvang: 104 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $ 20,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het feministische boek van Djamila Ribeiro

The instant bestseller from Djamila Ribeiro that sparked a major Black feminist movement in Brazil.

In a society shaped by the legacies of enslavement, white supremacy, and sexism, who has the right to a voice? In this elegant essay, Djamila Ribeiro offers a compelling intervention into contemporary discussions of power and identity: the concept of “speaking place.” A crucial component of conversations on race and gender in Brazil, speaking place is the idea that everyone has a social position in the world and that what we are able to say, and how it is received by others, depends on it. Ribeiro traces the history of Black feminist thought through several centuries, examining the ways that Black women have been silenced, ignored, and punished for speaking.

Building on feminist standpoint theory, and in conversation with the works of Sojourner Truth, bell hooks, Audre Lorde, and others, Ribeiro invites all of us to recognize where we stand, to imagine geographies different from those we’ve inherited, and to speak a more humane world into being.

Djamila Ribeiro (1 augustus 1980, Santos, Brazilië) is a philosopher, essayist, editor, and one of the most influential leaders in the Afro-Brazilian women’s rights movement.

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Geschiedenisboeken

Roger Crowley – Spice

Roger Crowley Spice recensie en informatie over de inhoud van het geschiedenisboek over zestiende-eeuwse koloniale kruidenhandel in Azië en de Pacific. Op 14 mei 2024 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het nieuwste boek van de Britse historicus en schrijver Roger Crowley. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Van een Nederlandse vertaling van het boek is nog niets bekend.

Roger Crowley Spice recensie

Mocht er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnen van Spice, het nieuwe geschiedenisboek van Roger Crowley, dan besteden we er hier aandacht aan.

  • “Roger Crowley is a great narrator, matched here to his greatest theme: the circling of the planet to create for the first time a truly global economy. A heart-pulsing story of terrifying hardship and inspiring courage.” (David Frum, Senior Editor, the Atlantic)

Roger Crowley Spice

Spice

The 16th-Century Contest that Shaped the Modern World

  • Auteur: Roger Crowley (Engeland)
  • Soort boek: geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Verschijnt: 14 mei 2024
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek
  • Prijs: $ 25,00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol / Libris

Flaptekst van het boek over de 16e eeuwse kruidenhandel in Azië en de Pacific

The story of the sixteenth-century’s epic contest for the spice trade, which propelled European maritime exploration and conquest across Asia and the Pacific.

Spices drove the early modern world economy, and for Europeans they represented riches on an unprecedented scale. Cloves and nutmeg could reach Europe only via a complex web of trade routes, and for decades Spanish and Portuguese explorers competed to find their elusive source. But when the Portuguese finally reached the spice islands of the Moluccas in 1511, they set in motion a fierce competition for control.

Roger Crowley shows how this struggle shaped the modern world. From 1511 to 1571, European powers linked up the oceans, established vast maritime empires, and gave birth to global trade, all in the attempt to control the supply of spices.

Taking us on voyages from the dockyards of Seville to the vastness of the Pacific, the volcanic Spice Islands of Indonesia, the Arctic Circle, and the coasts of China, this is a narrative history rich in vivid eyewitness accounts of the adventures, shipwrecks, and sieges that formed the first colonial encounters—and remade the world economy for centuries to follow.

Roger Crowley Spice recensie

Mocht er in de media een boekbespreking of recensie verschijnen van Spice, het nieuwe geschiedenisboek van Roger Crowley, dan besteden we er hier aandacht aan.

  • “Roger Crowley is a great narrator, matched here to his greatest theme: the circling of the planet to create for the first time a truly global economy. A heart-pulsing story of terrifying hardship and inspiring courage.” (David Frum, Senior Editor, the Atlantic)

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Biografie, Geschiedenisboeken

Donald J. Robertson – Marcus Aurelius

Donald J. Robertson Marcus Aurelius. Op 6 februari 2024 verschijnt bij Yale University Press het boek over de Romeinse keizer Marcus Aurelius, geschreven door Donald J. Robertson. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Donald J. Robertson Marcus Aurelius recensie

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van het boek over de Romeinse keizer Marcus Aurelius, geschreven door Donald J. Robertson, kun je er hier over lezen.

Donald J. Robertson informatie en boek

Donald J. Robertson is geboren in 1972. Hij is een is een psychotherapeut die is gespecialiseerd in cognitief gedrag. Bovendien is hij schrijver met een bijzondere interesse voor het gedachtengoed van het stoïcisme, met name van de Romeinen. Over dit laatste onderwerp is een aantal boeken van zijn hand verschenen.

Donald J. Robertson Marcus Aurelius

Marcus Aurelius

The Stoic Emperor

  • Auteur: Donald J. Robertson (Canada)
  • Soort boek: biografie, geschiedenisboek
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Ancient Lives
  • Verschijnt: 6 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 248 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $26.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van het boek over de Romeinse keizer Marcus Aurelius

Experience the world of Roman emperor Marcus Aurelius and the tremendous challenges he faced and overcame with the help of Stoic philosophy.

This novel biography brings Marcus Aurelius (121–180 CE) to life for a new generation of readers by exploring the emperor’s fascinating psychological journey. Donald J. Robertson examines Marcus’s relationships with key figures in his life, such as his mother, Domitia Lucilla, and the emperor Hadrian, as well as his Stoic tutors. He draws extensively on Marcus’s own Meditations and correspondence, and he examines the emperor’s actions as detailed in the Augustan History and other ancient texts.

Marcus Aurelius struggled to reconcile his philosophy and moral values with the political pressures he faced as emperor at the height of Roman power. Robertson examines Marcus’s attitude toward slavery and the moral dilemma posed by capturing enemies in warfare; his attitude toward women; the role of Stoicism in shaping his response to the threat of civil war; the treatment of Christians under his rule; and the naming of his notorious son Commodus as his successor.

Throughout, the Meditations is used to shed light on the mind of the emperor—his character, values, and motives—as Robertson skillfully weaves together Marcus’s inner journey as a philosopher with the outer events of his life as a Roman emperor.

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Biografie

Ian Buruma – Spinoza

Ian Buruma Spinoza biografie. Op 15 februari 2024 verschijnt bij uitgeverij Yale University Press in de reeks Jewish Lives de biografie van Spinoza, geschreven door Ian Buruma. Hier lees je informatie over de inhoud van het boek, de schrijver en over de uitgave. Er is nog geen Nederlandse vertaling van het boek verkrijgbaar of aangekondigd.

Ian Buruma Spinoza biografie recensie

Als er boekbesprekingen en recensies verschijnen in de media van de biografie van Baruch Spinoza, geschreven door Ian Buruma, kun je er hier over lezen.

  • “An elegant, relevant biography of a vital thinker.” (Kirkus Reviews)

Ian Buruma boeken en informatie

Ian Buruma is op 28 december 1951 in Den Haag. Hij heeft een Joods-Engelse moeder en een Nederlandse vader. Buruma studeerde Chinees aan de Rijksuniversiteit Leiden en daarna Japanse film aan de Nihon Universiteit in Tokio. Hij heeft in de jaren tachtig van de vorige eeuw zeven jaar in Hongkong gewerkt en gewoond als journalist en publiceerde artikelen in kranten en tijdschriften van wereldfaam. Veel van zijn werk schrijft hij in het Engels.

Inmiddels heeft Ian Buruma een behoorlijk aantal non-fictie boeken geschreven waarvan het merendeel in Nederlandse vertaling verschenen is. Zijn nieuwste boek, een biografie van Baruch Spinoza, waarover je hier alles leest, verschijnt midden februari bij Yale University Press. Over een mogelijke Nederlandse vertaling is nog niets bekend.

Ian Buruma Spinoza.

Spinoza

Freedoms Messiah

  • Auteur: Ian Buruma (Nederland)
  • Soort boek: biografie
  • Taal: Engels
  • Uitgever: Yale University Press
  • Reeks: Jewish Lives
  • Verschijnt: 13 februari 2024
  • Omvang: 216 pagina’s
  • Uitgave: gebonden boek / ebook
  • Prijs: $26.00
  • Boek bestellen bij: Amazon / Bol

Flaptekst van de biografie van Spinoza van Ian Buruma

Baruch (Benedictus) Spinoza (1632–1677) was a radical free thinker who led a life guided by strong moral principles despite his disbelief in an all-seeing God. Seen by many—Christians as well as Jews—as Satan’s disciple during his lifetime, Spinoza has been regarded as a secular saint since his death. Many contradictory beliefs have been attached to his name: rationalism or metaphysics, atheism or pantheism, liberalism or despotism, Jewishness or anti-Semitism. However, there is no question that he viewed freedom of thought and speech as essential to an open and free society.

In this insightful account, the award-winning author Ian Buruma stresses the importance of the time and place that shaped Spinoza, beginning with the Sephardim of Amsterdam and followed by the politics of the Dutch Republic. Though Spinoza rejected the basic assumptions of his family’s faith, and was consequently expelled from his Sephardic community, Buruma argues that Spinoza did indeed lead a Jewish life: a modern Jewish life. To Heine, Hess, Marx, Freud, and no doubt many others today, Spinoza exemplified how to be Jewish without believing in Judaism. His defense of universal freedom is as important for our own time as it was in his.

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