A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy

Biographical note Readership Table of contents

Publication Type:

Book

Pages, Illustrations:

xvi, 362 pp.

Imprint:

BRILL

Language:

English

Biographical note

Eliezer Schweid, recipient of the prestigious Israel prize (1994) as well as two honorary degrees, is Emeritus Professor of Jewish Thought at the Hebrew University. He has published over 40 books on Jewish thought of all periods and contemporary topics and has commented frequently on the relevance of the legacy of Jewish thought to contemporary issues of Jewish and universal human concern.

Readership

This work will be the standard reference in modern Jewish philosophy, essential for students of Judaica, general philosophy, religious thought, modern social-political history, and the crisis of humanism.

Introduction: Judaism, Philosophy and Modernity
Chapter One: God and Nature in the Philosophy of Baruch Spinoza
Chapter Two: Leibnitz and Mendelssohn: Enlightened Defense of Christianity and Judaism
Chapter Three: Challenge of the Idealist Revolution in the Enlightenment: Religion and Philosophy of Immanuel Kant
Chapter Four: Philosophy Supplants Religion: The Teaching of G.W.F. Hegel
Chapter Five: The Philosophical Return to Religion and Myth - The Philosophy of F.W.J. Schelling
Chapter Six: Judaism Between Sensualism, Imagination, and Reason: The Jewish Philosophy of Religion of Solomon Maimon
Chapter Seven: Correcting Judaism by its own Criteria: Saul Ascher's Philosophy of Religion
Chapter Eight: The Appearance of Enlightened Orthodoxy in Response to Modern Philosophy - Naphtali Herz Wessely and Mordecai Gumpel Schnaber
Chapter Nine: Judaism as an Evolving National-Spiritual Culture: The Thought of R. Nachman Krochmal Based on Hegel's Dialectical Idealism

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Hekhalot Literature in Translation

James Davila

The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of Hebrew and Aramaic documents dealing with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot. This volume presents English translations of an eclectic text with critical apparatus of most of the major Hekhalot texts.

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9789004243330

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From Phenomenology to Existentialism

Dov Schwartz, Bar Ilan University . Translated by Batya Stein.

This book focuses on the first and second stages of Soloveitchik’s philosophy, through a systematic and detailed discussion of some of his essays. Schwartz exposes the philosophical methodology of Soloveitchik's religious thought (1945-1965).

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9789004234260

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Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah

Jonathan Dauber, Yeshiva University

In Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah, Jonathan Dauber offers a fresh consideration of the emergence of Kabbalah against the backdrop of a re-evaluation of the relationship between Kabbalistic and philosophic discourse.

€123.00$171.00

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9789004233508

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Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought

Edited by James A. Diamond, University of Waterloo and Aaron W. Hughes, University of Rochester

How does the “medieval” function as a bearer of Jewish identity in a changing secular world? Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different Jewish return to the medieval by using a language of renewal.

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9789004232600

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The National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion

Hartwig Wiedebach, Herman Cohen Archives, University of Zurich. Translated by William Templer, Simon Dubnow Institute for Jewish History and Culture, University of Leipzig

Hermann Cohen was a Jewish-German thinker with a passion for philosophy. Two forms of national engagement influenced his philosophical system and his Jewish thought: a cultural-political 'Germanness' (Deutschtum) and a religious Judaism beyond the political.

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Studies in Medieval Jewish Intellectual and Social History

Edited by David Engel, Lawrence Schiffmann, and Elliot Wolfson, New York University. Managing Editor Yechiel Schur

Thirteen leading scholars offer a fresh look at four key topics in medieval Jewish studies: the history of Jewish communities in Western Christendom, Jewish-Christian interactions in medieval Europe, medieval Jewish Biblical exegesis and religious literature, and historical representations of ...

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9789004206526

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"Without Any Doubt"

Sara Klein-Braslavy

This book collects eight articles on the thought and method of Gersonides (Provence, 1288-1344). They deal with: his methods of inquiry and composition; his use of introductions; his method in the supercommentaries on Averroes; and his methods of biblical exegesis.

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9789004194465

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The Serpent Kills or the Serpent Gives Life

Robert J. Sagerman

Representing a careful contextual study of the writings of the influential Jewish mystic Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291), this book demonstrates that an inner dynamic of attraction and revulsion toward Christianity shaped Abulafia’s mystical hermeneutic and meditative practice.

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Spirituality in the Writings of Etty Hillesum

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9789004181236

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The Mystery of the Earth

Israel Koren

Challenging the prevalent view that in order to establish his “Dialogical” thought Martin Buber had to forsake his earlier “mystical” work, Israel Koren demonstrates instead that mystical paradigms serve as the foundation for Buber’s dialogue and endow it with greater depth.