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The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

Author : Willi Goetschel
Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Page : 280 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2015-06-01
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780823266203

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The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought by Willi Goetschel Pdf

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their “Jewish questions” inform the rethinking of philosophy’s disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just “Jewish philosophy” from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.

History of Jewish Philosophy

Author : Daniel Frank,Oliver Leaman
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 871 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2005-10-20
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781134894352

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History of Jewish Philosophy by Daniel Frank,Oliver Leaman Pdf

Jewish philosophy is often presented as an addendum to Jewish religion rather than as a rich and varied tradition in its own right, but the History of Jewish Philosophy explores the entire scope and variety of Jewish philosophy from philosophical interpretations of the Bible right up to contemporary Jewish feminist and postmodernist thought. The links between Jewish philosophy and its wider cultural context are stressed, building up a comprehensive and historically sensitive view of Jewish philosophy and its place in the development of philosophy as a whole. Includes: · Detailed discussions of the most important Jewish philosophers and philosophical movements · Descriptions of the social and cultural contexts in which Jewish philosophical thought developed throughout the centuries · Contributions by 35 leading scholars in the field, from Britain, Canada, Israel and the US · Detailed and extensive bibliographies

Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity

Author : Leo Strauss
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 526 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9781438421445

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Jewish Philosophy and the Crisis of Modernity by Leo Strauss Pdf

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.

The Future of Jewish Philosophy

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson,Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 356 pages
File Size : 46,7 Mb
Release : 2018-08-13
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004381216

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The Future of Jewish Philosophy by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson,Aaron W. Hughes Pdf

This anthology reflects on the future of Jewish philosophy in light of the Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers (Brill, 2013-2018). The essays assess the academic contribution and cultural importance of Jewish philosophy and offer paths for its future growth.

An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy

Author : Norbert M. Samuelson
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 333 pages
File Size : 49,9 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.

Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

Author : Daniel H. Weiss
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 343 pages
File Size : 40,8 Mb
Release : 2023-03-31
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781009221665

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Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence by Daniel H. Weiss Pdf

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.

A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy

Author : Eliezer Schweid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 524 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2019-02-19
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004380608

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A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid Pdf

Volume Three, The Crisis of Humanism, commences with an important essay on the challenge to the humanist tradition posed in the late 19th century by historical materialism, existentialism and positivism. These Jewish thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century addressed the general European value crisis while laying foundations for Jewish renewal: Hess, Lazarus, Cohen, Ahad Ha-Am, Dubnow, Berdiczewski, and the theorists of Yiddishism and Labor Zionism.

Judaism and the West

Author : Robert Erlewine
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 247 pages
File Size : 45,9 Mb
Release : 2016-08-08
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780253022394

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Judaism and the West by Robert Erlewine Pdf

Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism when others sought to deny and even expel Jewish influences. By reading the canon of Jewish philosophy in this new light, Erlewine offers insight into how Jewish thinkers used religion to assert their individuality and modernity.

Judaism III

Author : Michael Tilly,Burton L. Visotzky
Publisher : Kohlhammer Verlag
Page : 388 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2020-04-28
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9783170325890

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Judaism III by Michael Tilly,Burton L. Visotzky Pdf

Judaism, the oldest of the Abrahamic religions, is one of the pillars of modern civilization. A collective of internationally renowned experts cooperated in a singular academic enterprise to portray Judaism from its transformation as a Temple cult to its broad contemporary varieties. In three volumes the long-running book series "Die Religionen der Menschheit" (Religions of Humanity) presents for the first time a complete and compelling view on Jewish life now and then - a fascinating portrait of the Jewish people with its ability to adapt itself to most different cultural settings, always maintaining its strong and unique identity. Volume III completes this ambitious project with profound chapters on Modern Jewish Culture, Halakhah (Jewish Law), Jewish Languages, Jewish Philosophy, Modern Jewish Literature, Feminism and Gender, and on Judaism and inter-faith relations.

An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers

Author : Alan T. Levenson,Roger C. Klein
Publisher : Rowman & Littlefield
Page : 252 pages
File Size : 47,5 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.

A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy

Author : Eliezer Schweid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 342 pages
File Size : 50,5 Mb
Release : 2015-02-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290372

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A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid Pdf

The culmination of Eliezer Schweid’s life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical developments, with extensive primary source excerpts. Volume Two, "The Birth of the Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements," discusses the major Jewish thinkers of central and eastern Europe before 1881, in connection with the movements they fostered: German-Jewish Wissenschaft (Zunz), Reform (Formstecher, Samuel Hirsch, Geiger), Neo-Orthodoxy (S. D. Luzzatto, Steinheim, Samson Raphael Hirsch), Positive-Historical (Frankel, Graetz), and Neo-Haredi (Kalischer, Malbim, Hayyim Volozhiner, Salanter). In addition, extensive attention is given to the thinkers of the east-European Haskalah, both earlier (Levinsohn, Rubin, Schorr, Mieses, Abraham Krochmal) and later proto-Zionist thinkers (Zweifel, Smolenskin, Pines, Lilienblum).

The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy

Author : Michael L. Morgan,Peter Eli Gordon
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2007-06-04
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781139826778

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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.

Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity

Author : Agata Bielik-Robson
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 412 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 2014-08-13
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781317684497

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Jewish Cryptotheologies of Late Modernity by Agata Bielik-Robson Pdf

This book aims to interpret ‘Jewish Philosophy’ in terms of the Marrano phenomenon: as a conscious clinamen of philosophical forms used in order to convey a ‘secret message’ which cannot find an open articulation. The Marrano phenomenon is employed here, in the domain of modern philosophical thought, where an analogous tendency can be seen: the clash of an open idiom and a secret meaning, which transforms both the medium and the message. Focussing on key figures of late modern, twentieth century Jewish thought; Hermann Cohen, Gershom Scholem, Walter Benjamin, Franz Rosenzweig, Theodor Adorno, Ernst Bloch, Jacob Taubes, Emmanuel Levinas and Jacques Derrida, this book demonstrates how their respective manners of conceptualization swerve from the philosophical mainstream along the Marrano ‘secret curve.’ Analysing their unique contribution to the ‘unfinished project of modernity,’ including issues of the future of the Enlightenment, modern nihilism and post-secular negotiation with religious heritage, this book will be essential reading for students and researchers with an interest in Jewish Studies and Philosophy.

A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy

Author : Eliezer Schweid
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 562 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2022-11-07
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789004533134

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A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy by Eliezer Schweid Pdf

The last generation of German Jewish philosophers—the best known (Buber, Rosenzweig, Baeck, Strauss, Scholem) and the less known (Breuer, Birnbaum, Klatzkin, Guttmann)—are thoroughly explicated here with generous primary text citations appearing in English for the first time.

Thinking Jewish Culture in America

Author : Ken Koltun-Fromm
Publisher : Lexington Books
Page : 347 pages
File Size : 48,7 Mb
Release : 2013-12-11
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780739174470

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Thinking Jewish Culture in America by Ken Koltun-Fromm Pdf

Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with Chancellor Arnold Eisen’s postscript, position Jewish thought within the dynamics and possibilities of contemporary Jewish culture. These diverse essays in Jewish thought re-imagine cultural space as a public and sometimes contested performance of Jewish identity, and they each seek to re-enliven that space with reflective accounts of cultural meaning. How do Jews imagine themselves as embodied actors in America? Do cultural obligations limit or expand notions of the self? How should we imagine Jewish thought as a cultural performance? What notions of peoplehood might sustain a vibrant Jewish collectivity in a globalized economy? How do programs in Jewish studies work within the academy? These and other questions engage both Jewish thought and culture, opening space for theoretical works to broaden the range of cultural studies, and to deepen our understanding of Jewish cultural dynamics. Thinking Jewish Culture is a work about Jewish cultural identity reflected through literature, visual arts, philosophy, and theology. But it is more than a mere reflection of cultural patterns and choices: the argument pursued throughout Thinking Jewish Culture is that reflective sources help produce the very cultural meanings and performances they purport to analyze.