Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy

Name: Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521012553

ISBN-10: 0521012554

ISBN-13: 9780521012553

Edition: 2006

Authors: Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon

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Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of new essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy: language and revelation, autonomy and authority, the problem of evil, messianism, the influence of Kant, and feminism. Included are essays on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, and Levinas. Other thinkers discussed include…

Book details

List price: $39.99
Copyright year: 2006
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 6/11/2007
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 406
Size: 5.91" wide x 8.90" long x 0.98" tall
Weight: 1.188
Language: English

MICHAEL L. MORGAN is Professor in the Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of Platonic Piety: Philosophy and Ritual in Fourth Century Athens and editor of The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim and Classics of Moral and Political Theory.



Contributors


Acknowledgments


Chronology



Introduction: Modern Jewish Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and Modern Judaism




Baruch Spinoza and the Naturalization of Judaism




The Liberalism of Moses Mendelssohn




Jewish Philosophy after Kant: The Legacy of Salomon Maimon




Hermann Cohen: Judaism and Critical Idealism




Self, Other, Text, God: The Dialogical Thought of Martin Buber




Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence




Leo Strauss and Modern Jewish Thought




Messianism and Modern Jewish Philosophy




Ethics, Authority, and Autonomy




Joseph Soloveitchik and Halakhic Man




Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the Primacy of the Ethical




Emil Fackenheim, the Holocaust, and Philosophy




Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust




Revelation, Language, and Commentary: From Buber to Derrida




Feminism and Modern Jewish Philosophy



Bibliography


Index