ISBN:
9789004249790
Language:
English
Pages:
1 Online-Ressource (xiii, 256 pages)
Year of publication:
2013
Series Statement:
Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers v. 1
Parallel Title:
Erscheint auch als Eliezer Schweid: The Responsibility of Jewish Philosophy
Keywords:
Schweid, Eliezer Teachings
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Jewish philosophy
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Philosophy, Medieval
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PHILOSOPHY / Eastern
Abstract:
Preliminary Material -- Eliezer Schweid: An Intellectual Portrait /Leonard Levin -- Judaism as a Culture /Eliezer Schweid -- Faith Confronting the Experiences of Our Age /Eliezer Schweid -- Humanism, Globalization, Postmodernism, and the Jewish People /Eliezer Schweid -- The Drama of Secular History: The Return to Nature and Exit from the Other Side /Eliezer Schweid -- Interview with Eliezer Schweid /Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Leonard Levin -- Select Bibliography.
Abstract:
This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s philosophy of Judaism for a secular age. The volume brings together four of Schweid’s most original and influential philosophical essays and an interview with him that together express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, freely choosing loyalty to his or her national culture and drawing on Jewish heritage to inform how to act responsibly toward one’s neighbor, one’s people, the world, and God. The themes span the gamut of Schweid’s life work: the existential loneliness of the modern Jew; Judaism as a culture; faith in light of the Holocaust; and appreciation for secular humanism with awareness of its shortcomings, given the enduring legacy of the Jewish biblical heritage
Note:
Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 26, 2013)
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Includes bibliographical references
DOI:
10.1163/9789004249790
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