Waterstones Genius and Anxiety
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Price: £11.99
Brand: Waterstones
Description: A unique chronicle of the hundred-year period when the Jewish people changed the world - and it changed them Marx, Freud, Proust, Einstein, Bernhardt and Kafka. Between the middle of the nineteenth and twentieth centuries a few dozen men and women changed the way we see the world. But many have vanished from our collective memory despite their enduring importance in our daily lives. Without Karl Landsteiner, for instance, there would be no blood transfusions or major surgery. Without Paul Ehrlich no chemotherapy. Without Siegfried Marcus no motor car. Without Rosalind Franklin genetic science would look very different. Without Fritz Haber there would not be enough food to sustain life on earth. These visionaries all have something in common - their Jewish origins and a gift for thinking outside the box. In 1847 the Jewish people made up less than 0.25% of the world's population, and yet they saw what others could not. How?. Waterstones Genius and Anxiety - shop the best deal online on thebookbug.co.uk
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Merchant: Waterstones
Product ID: 9781786078292
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ISBN: 9781786078292
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Author: Anglolena
Rating: 5
Review: This book is a must-read for everyone interested in the modern world. It is Eurocentric, as most of the Jews portrayed in it lived in Europe, or emigrated to North America from Europe. I knew Norman Lebrecht as a witty commentator on classical music and the loss of its relevance, but now I realise that he is a true polymath, as well informed about Einstein and Szilard, and Trotsky, as about Mendelssohn, Wagner and Schoenberg. I found the theological discussions fascinating, though he seems to have quite a soft spot for Orthodox Judaism, including Lubavitchers etc., whom he portrays as ecstatic rather than obscurantist. He is hilarious on Freud, and puts another well-deserved nail in that coffin. Just about every insight is generalisable to other minority groups.
Author: Dr Horreur
Rating: 1
Review: The book is chaptered by year rather than person. This makes it difficult to look up the particular contributions of, say, Karl Marx, Sigmund Freud or Albert Einstein. Also, the book seems very much anti-communist, anti-socialist, even to the point of being outright, and hence intellectually untrustworthy, right-wing propaganda. The text comes very close to saying the science of these people is contained within, and may be read from the Tanakh (Bible). This is a big disappointment to me because I was looking forward to an academic argument around a link between genius and Judaism, or better still, a link between genius and the liability to (intemperate) panic. As it is, I am annoyed that I wasted £2.99 on it, and made suspicious of the support apparently given it in the publishing world.
