Rethinking Jewish Philosophy

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 : 0199356815
Total Pages : 191 pages
Book Rating : 4.12/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by Oxford University Press. This book was released on 2014-04 with total page 191 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Rather than assume that the terms "philosophy" and "Judaism" simply belong together, Aaron W. Hughes explores the juxtaposition and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation. He examines the historical, cultural, intellectual, and religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy.

Author : Aaron W. Hughes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780199358199
Total Pages : pages
Book Rating : 4.92/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking Jewish Philosophy written by Aaron W. Hughes and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Breaking with received opinion, this book seeks to challenge the exclusionary, essentialist, and even totalitarian nature that is inherent to the practice of what is problematically referred to as 'Jewish philosophy'. Hughes begins with the premise that Jewish philosophy, as it is presently conceived, is impossible. He then begins the process of offering a sophisticated and constructive rethinking of the discipline that avoids the traditional extremes of universalism and particularism.

Author : Leon Roth
Publisher : Liverpool University Press
ISBN 13 : 190982173X
Total Pages : 220 pages
Book Rating : 4.36/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Is There a Jewish Philosophy? written by Leon Roth and published by Liverpool University Press. This book was released on 1999-03-01 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Elegantly written essays provide an engaging, thought-provoking discussion of the fundamentals of Judaism, in which the application of Jewish ethical principles shines through.

Author : Michael L. Morgan
Publisher : Indiana University Press
ISBN 13 : 0253014778
Total Pages : 455 pages
Book Rating : 4.71/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Rethinking the Messianic Idea in Judaism written by Michael L. Morgan and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2014-11-28 with total page 455 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Over the centuries, the messianic tradition has provided the language through which modern Jewish philosophers, socialists, and Zionists envisioned a utopian future. Michael L. Morgan, Steven Weitzman, and an international group of leading scholars ask new questions and provide new ways of thinking about this enduring Jewish idea. Using the writings of Gershom Scholem, which ranged over the history of messianic belief and its conflicted role in the Jewish imagination, these essays put aside the boundaries that divide history from philosophy and religion to offer new perspectives on the role and relevance of messianism today.

Author : Dr. David Hartman
Publisher : Jewish Lights Publishing
ISBN 13 : 1580237908
Total Pages : 208 pages
Book Rating : 4.01/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Who Hates Lies written by Dr. David Hartman and published by Jewish Lights Publishing. This book was released on 2014-02-01 with total page 208 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covenant & Conscience—A Groundbreaking Journey to the Heart of Halakha—new in paperback! “Anyone curious about the Jewish way of life, yet dissatisfied with much of contemporary Jewish theology and practice—repelled, perhaps, by the cheap and vulgar apologetics of those who seek to justify and sustain some of the tradition’s systematic immoralities, who smugly deny expression to any doubt or uncertainty, claiming a monopoly on absolute truth—is invited to join me on this pilgrimage.” —from the Introduction In this deeply personal look at the struggle between commitment to Jewish religious tradition and personal morality, Dr. David Hartman, the world’s leading Modern Orthodox Jewish theologian, probes the deepest questions at the heart of what it means to be a human being and a Jew. Dr. Hartman draws on a lifetime of learning, teaching and experience as a social activist to present an intellectual framework for examining covenantal theology as it is applied to religious life. As much an expression of his impassioned commitment to Jewish law as it is testament to a lifetime of intellectual questioning and courage, this bold examination of the halakhic system offers fresh insights into Judaism and the quest for spiritual nourishment.

Author : Arthur Green
Publisher : Yale University Press
ISBN 13 : 0300152337
Total Pages : 192 pages
Book Rating : 4.33/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Radical Judaism written by Arthur Green and published by Yale University Press. This book was released on 2010-03-30 with total page 192 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: How do we articulate a religious vision that embraces evolution and human authorship of Scripture? Drawing on the Jewish mystical traditions of Kabbalah and Hasidism, path-breaking Jewish scholar Arthur Green argues that a neomystical perspective can help us to reframe these realities, so they may yet be viewed as dwelling places of the sacred. In doing so, he rethinks such concepts as God, the origins and meaning of existence, human nature, and revelation to construct a new Judaism for the twenty-first century.

Author : David Hartman
Publisher : Turner Publishing Company
ISBN 13 : 1580235980
Total Pages : 231 pages
Book Rating : 4.83/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The God Who Hates Lies written by David Hartman and published by Turner Publishing Company. This book was released on 2011-04-01 with total page 231 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Covenant & Conscience—A Groundbreaking Journey to the Heart of Halakha "Anyone curious about the Jewish way of life, yet dissatisfied with much of contemporary Jewish theology and practice—repelled, perhaps, by the cheap and vulgar apologetics of those who seek to justify and sustain some of the tradition's systematic immoralities, who smugly deny expression to any doubt or uncertainty, claiming a monopoly on absolute truth—is invited to join me on this pilgrimage." —from the Introduction In this deeply personal look at the struggle between commitment to Jewish religious tradition and personal morality, Dr. David Hartman, the world’s leading Modern Orthodox Jewish theologian, probes the deepest questions at the heart of what it means to be a human being and a Jew. Dr. Hartman draws on a lifetime of learning, teaching and experience as a social activist to present an intellectual framework for examining covenantal theology as it is applied to religious life. As much an expression of his impassioned commitment to Jewish law as it is testament to a lifetime of intellectual questioning and courage, this bold examination of the halakhic system offers fresh insights into Judaism and the quest for spiritual nourishment.

Author : Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Publisher : BRILL
ISBN 13 : 9004269991
Total Pages : 159 pages
Book Rating : 4.96/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Eugene B. Borowitz: Rethinking God and Ethics written by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and published by BRILL. This book was released on 2014-03-20 with total page 159 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Eugene B. Borowitz is Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College in New York. A rabbi, teacher of rabbis, and a theologian, Borowitz has been an important spokesperson for non-Orthodox forms of Judaism, Reform Judaism in particular. Over seven decades, Borowitz has explored the centrality of God in Jewish existence, the normative force of Jewish law, the meaning of the Covenant, the distinctiveness of Jewish life, and the meaning of Jewish personhood for non-Orthodox Jews. Adopting the language of religious existentialism, he has reflected on the relational nature of human existence, on the one hand, and human self-determination on the other. Rethinking God and Ethics presents influential essays by Borowitz and explains his contribution to Jewish religious thought in the 20th century. Brill mourns the death of Professor Eugene Borowitz, of blessed memory, in January 2016. The LCJP honors his valuable contribution to Jewish theology, ethics, and education.

Author : Harvey Mitchell
Publisher : Routledge
ISBN 13 : 0415776171
Total Pages : 294 pages
Book Rating : 4.72/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Voltaire's Jews and Modern Jewish Identity written by Harvey Mitchell and published by Routledge. This book was released on 2008 with total page 294 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In this book Harvey Mitchell re-examines the nature of Voltaire's hostility by analyzing the Enlightenment, its role as a source of modern Anti-Semitism, and its shaping of modern Jewish identity.

Author : Willi Goetschel
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9780823244973
Total Pages : 280 pages
Book Rating : 4.70/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought written by Willi Goetschel and published by . This book was released on 2015-06 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But "Jewish philosophy" does not just reflect what "philosophy" lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their "Jewish questions" inform the rethinking of philosophy's disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just "Jewish philosophy" from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.