An Introduction To Modern Jewish Thinkers

Author : Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Judaism
ISBN : 9780742546066

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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers by Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein Pdf

Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.

Author : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,7 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438418575

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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Norbert M. Samuelson Pdf

The book is divided into three sections. The first provides a general historical overview for the Jewish thought that follows. The second summarizes the variety of basic kinds of popular, positive Jewish commitment in the twentieth century. The third and major section summarizes the basic thought of those modern Jewish philosophers whose thought is technically the best and/or the most influential in Jewish intellectual circles. The Jewish philosophers covered include Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Mordecai Kaplan, and Emil Fackenheim. The text includes summaries and a selected bibliography of primary and secondary sources.

Author : Claire Elise Katz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 53,6 Mb
Release : 2013-11-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780857735164

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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Claire Elise Katz Pdf

How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations of general philosophical inquiry. Questions about God, reality, language, and knowledge - metaphysics and epistemology - have been of as much concern to Jewish thinkers as they have been to others. Moses Mendelssohn, for example, was a friend of Kant. Hermann Cohen's philosophy is often described as 'neo-Kantian.' Franz Rosenzweig wrote his dissertation on Hegel. And the thought of Emmanuel Levinas is indebted to Husserl. In this much-needed textbook, which surveys the most prominent thinkers of the last three centuries, Claire Katz situates modern Jewish philosophy in the wider cultural and intellectual context of its day, indicating how broader currents of British, French and German thought influenced its practitioners. But she also addresses the unique ways in which being Jewish coloured their output, suggesting that a keen sense of particularity enabled the Jewish philosophers to help define the whole modern era. Intended to be used as a core undergraduate text, the book will also appeal to anyone with an interest how some of the greatest minds of the age grappled with some of its most urgent and fascinating philosophical problems.

Author : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2011-09-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780691130729

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How Judaism Became a Religion by Leora Batnitzky Pdf

A new approach to understanding Jewish thought since the eighteenth century Is Judaism a religion, a culture, a nationality—or a mixture of all of these? In How Judaism Became a Religion, Leora Batnitzky boldly argues that this question more than any other has driven modern Jewish thought since the eighteenth century. This wide-ranging and lucid introduction tells the story of how Judaism came to be defined as a religion in the modern period—and why Jewish thinkers have fought as well as championed this idea. Ever since the Enlightenment, Jewish thinkers have debated whether and how Judaism—largely a religion of practice and public adherence to law—can fit into a modern, Protestant conception of religion as an individual and private matter of belief or faith. Batnitzky makes the novel argument that it is this clash between the modern category of religion and Judaism that is responsible for much of the creative tension in modern Jewish thought. Tracing how the idea of Jewish religion has been defended and resisted from the eighteenth century to today, the book discusses many of the major Jewish thinkers of the past three centuries, including Moses Mendelssohn, Abraham Geiger, Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Zvi Yehuda Kook, Theodor Herzl, and Mordecai Kaplan. At the same time, it tells the story of modern orthodoxy, the German-Jewish renaissance, Jewish religion after the Holocaust, the emergence of the Jewish individual, the birth of Jewish nationalism, and Jewish religion in America. More than an introduction, How Judaism Became a Religion presents a compelling new perspective on the history of modern Jewish thought.

Author : Irene Kajon
Publisher : Psychology Press
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : Jewish philosophers
ISBN : 0415341639

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Contemporary Jewish Philosophy by Irene Kajon Pdf

Contemporary Jewish Philosophy offers a comprehensive survey of Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 50,8 Mb
Release : 20??
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:1271739464

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Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Anonim Pdf

Author : Alan T. Levenson
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 360 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2000
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015050320954

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Modern Jewish Thinkers by Alan T. Levenson Pdf

But Modern Jewish Thinkers is more than a survey. Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the "low-down" on which books are worth the reader's further consultation - and which are not."--BOOK JACKET.

Author : Gershon Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1936235315

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Modern Jewish Thinkers by Gershon Greenberg Pdf

Greenberg restructures the history of modern Jewish thought comprehensively, providing first-time English translations of Reggio, Krokhmal, Maimon, Samuel Hirsch, Formstecher, Steinheim, Ascher, Einhorn, Samuel David Luzzatto, and Hermann Cohen. The availability of these sources fills a gap in the field and stimulates new directions for teaching and scholarly research in modern Jewish thought.

Author : Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 256 pages
File Size : 45,8 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 0742546071

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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers by Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein Pdf

Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 1995
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0874415810

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Choices in Modern Jewish Thought by Eugene B. Borowitz Pdf

Jewish philosophy responds to the challenges of today's world. By studying the ideas of great contemporary thinkers, readers will achieve a rich understanding of our contemporary spiritual needs.

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Peter Eli Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 392 pages
File Size : 51,5 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521813123

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The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy by Michael L. Morgan,Peter Eli Gordon Pdf

Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonomy and authority, the problem of evil, messianism, the influence of Kant, and feminism. Included are essays on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, and Levinas. Other thinkers discussed include Maimon, Benjamin, Derrida, Scholem, and Arendt. The sixteen original essays are written by a world-renowned group of scholars especially for this volume and give a broad and rich picture of the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy over a period of four centuries.

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438421445

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Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity by Leo Strauss Pdf

This is the first book to bring together the major essays and lectures of Leo Strauss in the field of modern Jewish thought. It contains some of his most famous published writings, as well as significant writings which were previously unpublished. Spanning almost 30 years of continuously deepening reflection, the book presents the full range of Strauss's contributions as a modern Jewish thinker. These essays and lectures also offer Strauss's mature considerations of some of the great figures in modern Jewish thought, such as Baruch Spinoza, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Theodor Herzl, and Sigmund Freud. They also encompass his incisive analyses and original explorations of modern Judaism (which he viewed as caught in the grip of the "theological-political crisis"): from German Jewry, anti-Semitism, and the Holocaust to Zionism and the State of Israel; from the question of assimilation to the meaning and value of Jewish history. In addition Strauss's two sustained interpretations of the Hebrew Bible are also reprinted. These essays and lectures cumulatively point toward the "postcritical" reconstruction of Judaism which Strauss envisioned, suggesting it rebuild along Maimonidean lines. Thus, the book lends credence to the view that Strauss was able to uncover and probe the crisis at the heart of modern Jewish thought and history, perhaps with greater profundity than any other contemporary Jewish thinker.

Author : Irene Kajon
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 200 pages
File Size : 47,7 Mb
Release : 2020-04-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781000082715

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Contemporary Jewish Philosophy by Irene Kajon Pdf

This text introduces the most important Jewish philosophers of contemporary times from the point of view of their original approach to both Judaism and philosophy and include: Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenweig, Martin Buber, Leo Strauss, Emmanuel Levinas. It shows how for them the dialogue between Judaism and philosophy is necessary in order to avoid on one side, an attachment to Jewish tradition which is only nationalistic or non-rational; and on the other, an idea of philosophy which first of all focuses the problems of nature, human existence in the world, or God as the origin of being. In reconstructing the intellectual evolution of each of these twentieth-century philosophers with a view to their meaning today, this book is unique and goes beyond the standard historical account provided by other books. Contemporary Jewish Philosophy is essential reading for researchers and students of philosophy, Judaism and the history of religions.

Author : Gershon Greenberg
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2011
Category : Jewish philosophers
ISBN : 1936235463

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Modern Jewish Thinkers by Gershon Greenberg Pdf

Greenberg restructures the history of modern Jewish thought comprehensively, providing first-time English translations of Reggio, Krokhmal, Maimon, Samuel Hirsch, Formstecher, Steinheim, Ascher, Einhorn, Samuel David Luzzatto, and Hermann Cohen. The availability of these sources fills a gap in the field and stimulates new directions for teaching and scholarly research in modern Jewish thought.

Author : Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2006-09-27
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781134190010

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Jewish Thought by Oliver Leaman Pdf

This fresh and contemporary introduction to the Jewish faith, its philosophies and worldviews, explores debates which have preoccupied Jewish thinkers over the centuries and examines their continuing influence in contemporary Judaism. Written by Oliver Leaman, a leading figure in the field, the book surveys the central controversies in Judaism, including the protracted arguments within the religion itself. Topics range from the relations between Judaism and other religions, such as Islam and Christianity, to contemporary issues such as sex, gender and modernity. Central themes such as authority and obedience, the relations between Jewish and Greek thought, and the position and status of the State of Israel are also considered. The debates are further illustrated by reference to the Bible, as a profoundly realistic text in describing the long interaction between the Jews, their ancestors and God, as well as discussions about major thinkers, and passages from the ancient texts: The Mishnah, Talmud and Midrash. Oliver Leaman’s lively approach and light touch makes Jewish Thought ideal reading for anyone who wants to understand more about the Jewish faith and its outlook, past and present.