ISBN:
9789004458765
,
9789042018235
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource
Year of publication:
2004
Series Statement:
Brill Book Archive Part 1, ISBN: 9789004472495
Series Statement:
Value Inquiry Book Series 163
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Memory of the West : The Contemporaneity of Forgotten Jewish Thinkers
Keywords:
Benjamin, Walter Influence
;
Cohen, Hermann Influence
;
Kafka, Franz Influence
;
Jewish philosophers
;
Philosophy 20th century
;
Jewish philosophers
;
Philosophy History 20th century
;
Philosophy, Modern 20th century
Abstract:
This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning
Description / Table of Contents:
Editorial Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE -- ONE The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present -- TWO The Jewish Question -- THREE The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism -- FOUR A Philosophy of Experience -- FIVE Toward an Ethic of Compassion -- CONCLUSION -- Works Cited -- About the Author -- Index.
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
DOI:
10.1163/9789004458765
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