Eliezer Schweid : the responsibility of Jewish philosophy / / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Aaron W. Hughes ; translated by Leonard Levin.

• TeilnehmendeR: Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-; Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-; Levin, Leonard.
• Year of Publication: 2013
• Language: English
• Series: Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers 1.
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (270 p.)
• Notes: Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 26, 2013).

This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s philosophy of Judaism for a secular age. The volume brings together four of Schweid’s most original and influential philosophical essays and an interview with him that together express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, freely choosing loyalty to his or her national culture and drawing on Jewish heritage to inform how to act responsibly toward one’s neighbor, one’s people, the world, and God. The themes span the gamut of Schweid’s life work: the existential loneliness of the modern Jew; Judaism as a culture; faith in light of the Holocaust; and appreciation for secular humanism with awareness of its shortcomings, given the enduring legacy of the Jewish biblical heritage.

Table of Contents

Preliminary Material -- Eliezer Schweid: An Intellectual Portrait / Leonard Levin -- Judaism as a Culture / Eliezer Schweid -- Faith Confronting the Experiences of Our Age / Eliezer Schweid -- Humanism, Globalization, Postmodernism, and the Jewish People / Eliezer Schweid -- The Drama of Secular History: The Return to Nature and Exit from the Other Side / Eliezer Schweid -- Interview with Eliezer Schweid / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Leonard Levin -- Select Bibliography.