Memory of the West : : the contemporaneity of forgotten Jewish thinkers / / Reyes Mate ; translated from the Spanish by Anne Day Dewey ; edited by John R. Welch.

• Superior document: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 163
• VerfasserIn: Mate, Reyes,
• TeilnehmendeR: Dewey, Anne Day,; Welch, John R.,
• Place / Publishing House: Amsterdam ;, New York, New York : : Rodopi,, [2004]; ©2004
• Year of Publication: 2004
• Language: English
• Series: Value inquiry book series ; Volume 163.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (231 pages)
• Notes: Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

This book looks back in order to look forward. It is a sustained reflection on the great disillusion Europe experienced after World War I. Europeans understood that bombs had buried the Enlightenment. They knew that, to avoid catastrophe, they had to think anew. The catastrophe came, but Cohen, Benjamin, Kafka, and Rosenzweig had sounded the warning.

Table of Contents

Editorial Foreword -- Acknowledgments -- PROLOGUE -- ONE The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present -- TWO The Jewish Question -- THREE The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism -- FOUR A Philosophy of Experience -- FIVE Toward an Ethic of Compassion -- CONCLUSION -- Works Cited -- About the Author -- Index.