Encounters of Consequence : : Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond /

Encounters of Consequence : : Jewish Philosophy in the Twentieth Century and Beyond / / Michael Oppenheim.

Encounters of Consequence provides an introduction to and deeper analysis of the situation of Jewish philosophy beginning in the last century. It charts Jewish philosophy’s engagement with modernity and post-modernity along two overlapping axes—issues and persons—which often intersect. Key issues in...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2013
VerfasserIn:
Oppenheim, Michael,
MitwirkendeR:
Buber, Martin,
Levinas, Emmanuel,
Rosenzweig, Franz,
Place / Publishing House:Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2009]
©2009
Year of Publication:2009
Language:English
Series:Judaism and Jewish Life
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Physical Description:1 online resource (432 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • CONTENTS
  • Preface
  • I. Challenges and Responses
  • 1. Some Underlying Issues of Modern Jewish Philosophy
  • 2. Does Judaism Have Universal Significance?
  • II. Philosophers of Encounter
  • 3. Death and the Fear of Death in Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption
  • 4. The Halevi Book
  • 5. Into Life: Rosenzweig’s Essays on God, Man and the World
  • 6. The Meaning of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem
  • 7. Autobiography and the Becoming of the Self: Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell
  • 8. Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas: A Midrash or Thought-Experiment
  • 9. Welcoming the Other: The Philosophical Foundation for Pluralism in the Works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas
  • III. Jewish Philosophers in the Late Twentieth Century
  • 10. Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Soren Kierkegaard: Reflections on “The Lonely Man of Faith”
  • 11. Eliezer Schweid: The First Israeli Philosopher
  • 12. Can We Still Stay With Him?: Two Jewish Theologians Confront the Holocaust (Emil Fackenheim and Arthur Cohen)
  • 13. Theology and Community: The Work of Emil Fackenheim
  • 14. Irving Greenberg: A Jewish Dialectic of Hope
  • 15. Feminist Jewish Philosophy: A Response
  • Bibliography
  • Index

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