The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought / / Willi Goetschel.

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...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
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Place / Publishing House:New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2015]
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Year of Publication:2015
Language:English
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Physical Description:1 online resource (280 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Contents
  • Acknowledgments
  • 1. Introduction: Disciplining Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought
  • 2. Hellenes, Nazarenes, and Other Jews: Heine the Fool
  • 3. Jewish Philosophy? The Discourse of a Project
  • 4. Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig
  • 5. A House of One's Own? University, Particularity, and the Jewish House of Learning
  • 6. Jewish Thought in the Wake of Auschwitz: Margarete Susman's The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People
  • 7. Contradiction Set Free: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Philosophy out of the Sources of Judaism
  • 8. Spinoza's Smart Worm and the Interplay of Ethics, Politics, and Interpretation
  • 9. Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment
  • 10. State, Sovereignty, and the Outside Within: Mendelssohn's View from the "Jewish Colony"
  • 11. Mendelssohn and the State
  • 12. "An Experiment of How Coincidence May Produce Unanimity of Thoughts": Enlightenment Trajectories in Kant and Mendelssohn
  • Coda
  • Notes
  • Index