Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis : : Interpretation, Heresy, and History /

Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis : : Interpretation, Heresy, and History / / ed. by Ghilad H. Shenhav, Cedric Cohen-Skalli, Gilad Sharvit.

This volume brings together scholars from a range of disciplines to explore the intersections between crisis, scholarship, and action. The aim of this book is to think about the “moment of crisis,” through the concepts, writings, and methodologies awarded to us by Jewish thinkers in modernity. This...

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Superior document:Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter DG Plus DeG Package 2024 Part 1
MitwirkendeR:
Bielik-Robson, Agata,
Cohen-Skalli, Cedric,
Feldman, Karen S.,
Herzog, Annabel,
Liska, Vivian,
Magid, Shaul,
Miron, Ronny,
Rotlevy, Ori,
Shahar, Galili,
Sharvit, Gilad,
Shenhav, Ghilad H.,
Weiss, Daniel H.,
Wolfson, Elliot R.,
Yzraely, Yotam,
HerausgeberIn:
Cohen-Skalli, Cedric,
H. Shenhav, Ghilad,
Sharvit, Gilad,
Place / Publishing House:Berlin ;, Boston : : De Gruyter, , [2024]
©2024
Year of Publication:2024
Language:English
Series:Religiöse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum und Islam ; 7
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Physical Description:1 online resource (XII, 324 p.)
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Table of Contents:
  • Frontmatter
  • Foreword to the Series
  • Foreword of the editors in light of the events of October 7, 2023
  • Table of Contents
  • Introduction
  • Part One: Interpretation
  • Mashber: Crisis, Birth, Hebrew Version
  • The Crisis of Democracy and the Turn to Tradition: Habermas and Benjamin
  • Crisis, Decision, and Deferral: German-Jewish Thinkers vs. Carl Schmitt
  • Derrida and Levinas on Political Hospitality
  • On the Crisis of Jewish Law: Auerbach, Luther, and Realism
  • Part Two: Heresy and Rupture
  • The Theologico-Political Predicament, Zionism, and the Crisis of Heresy: Leo Strauss and Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar
  • Prophetic Politics: Back to Theology
  • Between Betrayal and Innovation: Scholem on the Marrano Crisis of Tradition
  • Talking with Heretics: Tracing a Theme in Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem and Classical Rabbinic Literature
  • Part Three: History
  • Leo Strauss in Paris 1933: A Missed Opportunity for a Dialogical Understanding of the Crisis of Liberalism
  • Death and the Infinitization of Finitude: Negation and the Ethical Crisis of Modernity in Edith Wyschogrod’s Postmodern Hermeneutic
  • The “Hermeneutic Triangle” of Modern Judaism: “God,” “History,” and “Meaning”
  • Is Jewish Exile a Crisis? Zionism, Modern Jewish Thought, and the Historical Dynamics of the Term
  • List of Contributors
  • Index of names
  • Index of topics

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