ISBN:
9781498523004
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1498523005
Language:
English
Pages:
vi, 239 Seiten
,
23 cm
Year of publication:
2021
DDC:
191
Keywords:
Rorty, Richard
;
Rorty, Richard
;
Judaism and philosophy
;
Jewish ethics
;
Judaism and secularism
;
Jewish ethics
;
Judaism and philosophy
;
Judaism and secularism
;
Rorty, Richard 1931-2007
;
Rezeption
;
Jüdische Philosophie
Abstract:
Part I: Social hope and solidarity : bringing Jewish philosophy and Rorty's neo-pragmatism together.Rorty, my atheist Rabbi? : between irony and social hope /Akiba Lerner --Prudence in the twenty-first century : moving beyond the morality-prudence distinction with Maimonides and Rorty /Jacob L: Goodson --Charlottesville pragmatism : Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism and Peter Ochs's rabbinic pragmatismGary Slater --Part II: Politics and prophecy : finding common ground in Jewish theology and Rorty's secular liberalism.The grounds of prophecy : Richard Rorty and the hermeneutics of history by Samuel /Hayim Brody --Messianism as a conversation stopper? : ironic utopianism and pragmatist Jewish politics /Elliot Ratzman --How to read Rorty as a political theologian : and why we should by Stephen Minister --Part III: Conversation and cruelty : putting Rorty's philosophy in conversation with Emmuel Levinas's Jewish ethics.All in the details : Rorty and Levinas on language, cruelty, and togetherness /Megan Craig --Two faces of heteronomy : autonomy and cruelty in Rorty and Levinas /Brad Elliott Stone --"A Faith without Triumph" : Levinas, Rorty, and prophetic pragmatism /J. Aaron Simmons --Rabbinic reasoning and a Rortyan ethic : narrative, pragmatism, and solidarity /Hannah E. Hashkes --Conclusion.Rorty and Heidegger's Nazism.
Abstract:
"This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty's secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which often comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism"--
Note:
Includes bibliographical references and index
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