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Judaism and the west : from Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik / Robert Erlewine.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: New Jewish philosophy and thoughtPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, 2016Copyright date: �2016Description: 1 online resourceContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9780253022394
  • 0253022398
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Judaism and the west.DDC classification:
  • 181/.06 23
LOC classification:
  • B5800 .E75 2016eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Exemplarity and the German-Jewish symbiosis: Hermann Cohen on war and religion -- Symbol not sacrifice: Cohen's Jewish Jesus -- Fire, rays, and the dark: Rosenzweig and the oriental/occidental divide -- Redeeming this world: Buber's Judaism and the sanctity of immanence -- Prophets, prophecy, and divine wrath: Heschel and the God of pathos -- Cultivating objectivity: Soloveitchik, the Marburg School, and religious pluralism.
Summary: Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers'Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik'to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism when others sought to deny and even expel Jewish influences. By reading the canon of Jewish philosophy in this new light, Erlewine offers insight into how Jewish thinkers used religion to assert their individuality and modernity.
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Exemplarity and the German-Jewish symbiosis: Hermann Cohen on war and religion -- Symbol not sacrifice: Cohen's Jewish Jesus -- Fire, rays, and the dark: Rosenzweig and the oriental/occidental divide -- Redeeming this world: Buber's Judaism and the sanctity of immanence -- Prophets, prophecy, and divine wrath: Heschel and the God of pathos -- Cultivating objectivity: Soloveitchik, the Marburg School, and religious pluralism.

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Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers'Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik'to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically contextualizes Jewish philosophy as part of the West. He teases out the antagonistic and overlapping attempts of Jewish thinkers to elucidate the philosophical and cultural meaning of Judaism when others sought to deny and even expel Jewish influences. By reading the canon of Jewish philosophy in this new light, Erlewine offers insight into how Jewish thinkers used religion to assert their individuality and modernity.

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