Modern Jewish Thought

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Peter Eli Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 406 pages
File Size : 44,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0521012554

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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 : Andrea Dara Cooper
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2021-11-02
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253057556

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Gendering Modern Jewish Thought by Andrea Dara Cooper Pdf

The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that challenges the key figures of the all-male fraternity of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy to open up to the feminine. Cooper offers a feminist lens, which when applied to thinkers such as Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, reveals new ways of illuminating questions of relational ethics, embodiment, politics, and positionality. She shows that patriarchal kinship as models of erotic love, brotherhood, and paternity are not accidental in Jewish philosophy, but serve as norms that have excluded women and non-normative individuals. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought suggests these fraternal models do real damage and must be brought to account in more broadly humanistic frameworks. For Cooper, a more responsible and ethical reading of Jewish philosophy comes forward when it is opened to the voices of mothers, sisters, and daughters.

Author : Sarah Hammerschlag
Publisher : Brandeis University Press
Page : 293 pages
File Size : 48,9 Mb
Release : 2018-05-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781512601879

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Modern French Jewish Thought by Sarah Hammerschlag Pdf

"Modern Jewish thought" is often defined as a German affair, with interventions from Eastern European, American, and Israeli philosophers. The story of France's development of its own schools of thought has not been substantially treated outside the French milieu. This anthology of modern French Jewish writing offers the first look at how this significant and diverse body of work developed within the historical and intellectual contexts of France and Europe. Translated into English, these documents speak to two critical axes--the first between Jewish universalism and particularism, and the second between the identification and disidentification of French Jews with France as a nation. Offering key works from Simone Weil, Vladimir JankŽlŽvitch, Emmanuel Levinas, Albert Memmi, HŽlne Cixous, Jacques Derrida, and many others, this volume is organized in roughly chronological order, to highlight the connections linking religion, politics, and history, as they coalesce around a Judaism that is unique to France.

Author : Eugene B. Borowitz
Publisher : Behrman House, Inc
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 43,5 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 : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 45,9 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 : Leora Batnitzky
Publisher : Princeton University Press
Page : 224 pages
File Size : 45,8 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 : Claire Elise Katz
Publisher : Bloomsbury Publishing
Page : 282 pages
File Size : 50,6 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 : Moshe Behar,Zvi Ben-Dor Benite
Publisher : UPNE
Page : 302 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2013
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781584658856

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Modern Middle Eastern Jewish Thought by Moshe Behar,Zvi Ben-Dor Benite Pdf

The first anthology of modern Middle Eastern Jewish thought

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438421445

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Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity by Leo Strauss Pdf

Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 222 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1992-11-22
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0253114764

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Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought by Michael L. Morgan Pdf

"MIchael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai.... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."Â -- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." -- Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." -- Ethics "... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought... " -- Choice Is Judaism a timeless, universal set of beliefs or, rather, is it historical and contingent in its relation to different times and places? Morgan clarifies the tensions and dilemmas that characterize modern thinking about the nature of Judaism and clears the way for Jews to appreciate their historical situation, yet locate enduring values and principles in a post-Holocaust world.

Author : Zachary Braiterman
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 47,9 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 0804753210

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The Shape of Revelation by Zachary Braiterman Pdf

The Shape of Revelation highlights the image of form-creation, sheer presence, lyric pathos, rhythmic repetition, open spatial dynamism, and erotic pulse unique in the work of Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and German Expressionism in order to explore the overlap between revelation and aesthetic shape from the perspective of Judaism.

Author : Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 51,5 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 : Gilad Sharvit
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 328 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2022-05-27
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1684581036

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Dynamic Repetition by Gilad Sharvit Pdf

A fine example of the best scholarship that lies at the intersection of philosophy, religion, and history. Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and philosophy. The book explores how ideals of repetition, return, and the cyclical occasioned a new messianic impulse across an important swath of late nineteenth- and early twentieth-century German Jewish thought. To grasp the complexities of Jewish messianism in modernity, the book focuses on diverse notions of "dynamic repetition" in the works of Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Franz Kafka, and Sigmund Freud, and their interrelations with basic trajectories of twentieth-century philosophy and critical thought.

Author : Svante Lundgren
Publisher : Global Academic Publishing
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 48,6 Mb
Release : 2001
Category : Religion
ISBN : 158684105X

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Particularism and Universalism in Modern Jewish Thought by Svante Lundgren Pdf

Explores how modern Judaism has balanced between universalism and particularism.

Author : Nahum Norbert Glatzer
Publisher : Schocken
Page : 240 pages
File Size : 52,6 Mb
Release : 1988-05-01
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 0805236317

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Modern Jewish Thought by Nahum Norbert Glatzer Pdf