After Jews - by Piotr Nowak (Paperback)

About the Book

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews".

Book Synopsis

The book is an attempt to describe and critically interpret the condition of man living in the shadow of the Shoah, in the world "after Jews".

Review Quotes

"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

TLS

'About The New Possibilities of Another Massacre'. Barbara Schabowska talks with Piotr Nowak

Taipei International Book Exhibition in Taiwan (2023)

About the Author

Piotr Nowak is Professor of Philosophy at the Bialystok University in Poland, deputy editor-in-chief 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).