Pushing Time Away My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
by Peter Singer
"What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. 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. He perished in obscurity at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. 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 E poque to the Great War, to the rise of Fascism, and the coming of World War II.
Biography & AutobiographyHistoricalSocial Scientists & PsychologistsJewishHistoryEurope
RELEASED2004
PUBLISHERHarper Collins
LENGTH254
LANGUAGEEN
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Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.
Pushing Time Away My Grandfather and the Tragedy of Jewish Vienna
by Peter Singer
"What binds us pushes time away," wrote David Oppenheim to his future wife, Amalie Pollak, on March 24, 1905. 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. He perished in obscurity at a Nazi concentration camp in 1943. 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 E poque to the Great War, to the rise of Fascism, and the coming of World War II.
Biography & AutobiographyHistoricalSocial Scientists & PsychologistsJewishHistoryEuropeAustria & HungaryModern
RELEASED2004
PUBLISHERHarper Collins
LENGTH254
LANGUAGEEN
Peter Albert David Singer AC (born 6 July 1946) is an Australian moral philosopher and the Ira W. DeCamp Professor of Bioethics at Princeton University. He specializes in applied ethics and approaches ethical issues from a secular, utilitarian perspective. He is known in particular for his book Animal Liberation (1975), in which he argues in favor of veganism, and his essay "Famine, Affluence, and Morality", in which he argues in favor of donating to help the global poor.
