Pushing Time Away Peter Singer HarperCollins, 2003

During the Second World War, David Oppenheim, classical scholar, and his wife Amalie were sent from Vienna by the Nazis to an overcrowded Jewish ghetto in Czechoslovakia. His grandson Peter Singer later found some of David's letters in Melbourne.

Starting from an essay that Oppenheim co-wrote with Freud, but which was suppressed after a bitter split within the Wednesday Group, Singer explores the difficulties of free inquiry in the circles of both Freud and Adler.

As he set out to find out more about the life of a man he never knew, Singer returned to the Vienna of his grandfather, when it was the hub of European culture and new ideas.

Examining this culture, and its fate, forced Singer to confront one of the foundations of his own thought: How much can we rely on human reason?

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