Ethics Out of Law : : Hermann Cohen and the “Neighbor” / / Dana Hollander.

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• VerfasserIn: Hollander, Dana,
• Place / Publishing House: Toronto : : University of Toronto Press, , [2021]; ©2021
• Year of Publication: 2021
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (324 p.)

Hermann Cohen (1842–1918) was a leading figure in the Neo-Kantian philosophical movement that dominated European thought before 1918. He was also an inaugural figure in modern Jewish philosophy in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. This book explores Cohen’s striking claim that ethics is root...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Acknowledgments and Preface
• Abbreviations
• Introduction
• Chapter One Cohen’s “Methodistic” Founding of Ethics in Legal Science: Generation of the Legal Person
• Chapter Two “For the Idea of Law [Gesetz] He Substitutes Morality”: Understanding Law in Cohen’s Ethik, with Help from the Early Strauss
• Chapter Three Philosophico-Political Theology as Method: From Strauss’s Philosophy and Law to Cohen’s “Philosophy of Jewish Religion”
• Chapter Four Isolation and Universalism: Cohen’s New Messianic Politics of Jewish Law
• Chapter Five Against “Affective Expansiveness”: Cohen’s Critique of Stammler’s Theory of “Right Law”
• Chapter Six The “Neighbor” as an Institution of Law (Recht), from the Ethik to the Jewish Writings
• Conclusion
• Bibliography
• Index