ISBN:
0521813123
Language:
English
Pages:
XX, 382 Seiten
Year of publication:
2007
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to religion
Series Statement:
Cambridge companions to religion
Keywords:
Jüdische Philosophie
Abstract:
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 new 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. 1. Introduction: modern Jewish philosophy, modern philosophy, and modern Judaism / Michael L. Morgan and Peter Eli Gordon 2. Baruch Spinoza and the naturalization of Judaism / Steven Nadler 3. The liberalism of Moses Mendelssohn / Allan Arkush 4. Jewish philosophy after Kant: the legacy of Salomon Maimon / Paul W. Franks 5. Hermann Cohen: Judaism and critical idealism / Andrea Poma 6. Self, other, text, God: the dialogical thought of Martin Buber / Tamara Wright 7. Franz Rosenzweig and the philosophy of Jewish existence / Peter Eli Gordon 8. Leo Strauss and modern Jewish thought / Steven B. Smith 9. Messianism and modern Jewish philosophy / Pierre Bouretz 10. Ethics, authority, and autonomy / Kenneth Seeskin 11. Joseph Soloveitchik and Halakhic man / Lawrence Kaplan 12. Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the primacy of the ethical / Richard A. Cohen 13. Emil Fackenheim, the Holocaust, and philosophy / Michael L. Morgan 14. Evil, suffering, and the Holocaust / Berel Lang 15. Revelation, language, and commentary: from Buber to Derrida / Leora Batnitzky 16. Feminism and modern Jewish philosophy / Tamar Rudavsky
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