Main description:

International contributors provide insight into Freud's last book.
Discusses themes including tradition, anti-Semitism, historical truth and memory.
Each author elaborates a contemporary perspective of elements in Freud's volume.

Contents:

List of Contributors

Series Editor's Forward

Gabriela Legorreta

Editor's Introduction to On Freud's "Moses and Monotheism"

Lawrence J. Brown

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 1

1. "The Jewish Offensive" - The Reception of Freud's Moses and Monotheism in Mandatory Jewish Palestine

Eran Rolnik

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 2

Lawrence J. Brown

2. Freud's "Phylogenetic Fantasy" and His Construction of the Historical Moses

Peter T. Hoffer

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 3

Lawrence J. Brown

3. The Probable in Nazi Times: The Opposing Fates of the Mystical and the Law.

Laurence Kahn

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 4

Lawrence J. Brown

4. "Moses - Freud's Literary Twin"

Merav Roth

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 5

Lawrence J. Brown

5. Memory and Historical Truth in Moses and Monotheism: The Contemporary Significance of "Historical Truth"

Sara Collins

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 6

Lawrence J. Brown

6. The Mule and the Dancer: Freud, Moses, and the Dilemma of the Hybrid

Sara Boffito

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 7

Lawrence J. Brown

7. The Puzzle of Freud's Puzzle Analogy: Reviving a Struggle with Doubt and Conviction in Freud's Moses and Monotheism

Rachel B. Blass

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 8

8. Der Mann Moses and the Man Freud: Leadership, Legacy and anti-Semitism

Shmuel Erlich

Editor's Introduction to Chapter 9

9. Freud: On Tradition

David Benhaim

Conclusion and Final Thoughts

Lawrence J. Brown