Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy

Name: Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy
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ISBN: 9780521831031

ISBN-10: 0521831032

ISBN-13: 9780521831031

Edition: 2004

Authors: Martin Kavka

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Martin Kavka challenges the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology (the doctrine of nonbeing) in one strand of the Jewish philosophical and theological tradition. Kavka's study also offers new interpretations of important contributors to contemporary Continental philosophy. They critique arguments about the role of lived religion in the thought of Jacques Derrida, the role of Greek philosophy in the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, and the ethical importance of the thought of Franz Rosenzweig.

Book details

List price: $95.99
Copyright year: 2004
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Publication date: 5/10/2004
Binding: Hardcover
Pages: 256
Size: 5.98" wide x 9.02" long x 0.75" tall
Weight: 1.210
Language: English



Acknowledgments


List of Abbreviations


Introduction: From Athens to Jerusalem


The Thesis and Two Corollaries


A Preliminary Sketch of the Argument


A Note on Gender



The Meontological Conundrum: Emmanuel Levinas and Emil Fackenheim on the Athens-Jerusalem Conflict


Critical Meontology: Emmanuel Levinas


Dialectical Meontology: Emil Fackenheim



Beyond "Beyond Being": Nonbeing in Plato and Husserl


The Problems of Middle Platonism


The Inadequacy of Unifaceted Definition


Nonbeing, Otherness, and the Coherence of Disparate Elements


Phenomenology and Meontology



Nonbeing as Not-Yet-Being: Meontology in Maimonides and Hermann Cohen


Return


Maimonidean Meontology


The Extirpation of the Passions in Maimonides


Meontology in Cohen's Logik der reinen Erkenntnis


From Teleology to Messianism: Cohen's Interpretation of Maimonides


The Integration of the Community: Religion of Reason


Conclusion



Nonbeing Ensouled, Nonbeing Embodied: Levinas versus Rosenzweig on the Role of the Other in Messianic Anticipation


The Soul, Faithful in Pathos


The Body, Faithful in Eros


Conclusion: Deepening the Roots of the Jewish Meontological Tradition, or contra the Derridean "Messianic"


Mourning Between Introjection and Incorporation


The Mourners of Zion, hadomim lo


Swallowing Tears


Works Cited


Index