This text argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that 'totality and infinity and otherwise than being' separate philosophy from Judaism. Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called 'ethics' is as much a hermeneutical product as a series of phenomenological observati…
Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas.
"What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more. Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best underst…
"What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more. Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best underst…
"What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more. Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best underst…
"What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more. Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best underst…
"In this book, Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as they were proposed in the 15th Century by Rabbi Joseph Albo, and seeks to scrutinise and refine them with the tool-kit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to creat…
by Ohana, David
fromRoutledge Jewish studies series
Nietzsche and Jewish Political Theology' is the first book to explore the impact of Friedrich Nietzsche's work on the formation of Jewish Political Theology during the first half of the twentieth century. It maps the many ways in which early Jewish thinkers grappled with Nietzsc…
Religious heretics - six characters in search of God -- Fin de siècle Hebrew Nietzscheanism -- It would be a good thing if the God of Zarathustra were the God of Israel -- Bereavement, breakdown and the great heresy -- Nietzschean religious Jews -- A Nietzschean Hassid taken to …
by Ohana, David
fromRoutledge Jewish studies series
by Ohana, David
fromRoutledge Jewish studies series
Jewish Theology Unbound' challenges the widespread misinterpretation of Judaism as a religion of law as opposed to theology. James A. Diamond provides close readings of the Bible, classical rabbinic texts, Jewish philosophers, and mystics from the ancient, medieval, and modern p…
What does it mean to be Jewish? What is an anti-Semite? Why does the enigmatic identity of the men who founded the first monotheistic religion arouse such passions? We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval time…
We need to return to the Jewish question. We need, first, to distinguish between the anti-Judaism of medieval times, which persecuted the Jews, and the anti-Judaism of the Enlightenment, which emancipated them while being critical of their religion. It is a mistake to confuse th…
