Heidegger and His Jewish Reception

AvDaniel M. Herskowitz

Häftad, Engelska, 2023

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Beskrivning

In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, he outlines the main patterns and the diverse Jewish responses to Heidegger. Herskowitz shows that through a dialectic of attraction and repulsion, Jewish thinkers developed a version of Jewishness that sought to offer the way out of the overall crisis plaguing their world, which was embodied, as they saw it, in Heidegger's life and thought. Neither turning a blind eye to Heidegger's anti-Semitism nor using it as an excuse for ignoring his philosophy, they wrestled with his existential analytic and what they took to be its religious, ethical, and political failings. Ironically, Heidegger's thought proved itself to be fertile ground for re-conceptualizing what it means to be Jewish in the modern world.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2023-05-11
Mått:153 x 229 x 23 mm
Vikt:580 g
Format:Häftad
Språk:Engelska
Antal sidor:374
Förlag:Cambridge University Press
ISBN:9781108749954

Utforska kategorier

Religion: allmänt inom Filosofi och religion
Filosofiska discipliner inom Filosofi och religion
Judendom inom Filosofi och religion

Mer om författaren

Daniel Herskowitz is Career Research Fellow in Jewish Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Recensioner i media

'… Through meticulous philological and textual control, and an acute theoretical sophistication, Daniel M. Herskowitz illumines the historical and conceptual frame of reference for the Jewish reception of Heidegger … Eschewing a simplistic political disavowal of Heidegger on account of his Nazi affiliation, the book demonstrates the complexity of thought and the need to look beyond platitudes to understand the depth of philosophical reflection. The book will most surely provoke discussion and stimulate further research into this important and timely topic.' Elliot R. Wolfson, Marsha and Jay Glazer Endowed Chair in Jewish Studies, University of California, Santa Barbara

Innehållsförteckning

Preface; 1. Herkunft and Zukunft: Heidegger, Christianity, and secularization; 2. Kant's legacy and new thinking: Heidegger, Cassirer, and Rosenzweig; 3. A Christian anthropology? Early Jewish readings of Sein und Zeit; 4. Dwelling prophetically: Martin Buber's response to Heidegger; 5. The destruktion of Jerusalem: Leo Strauss on Heidegger; 6. God, being, pathos: Abraham Joshua Heschel's theological rejoinder to Heidegger; 7. Uprooting paganism: Emmanuel Levinas faces Heidegger; Conclusion. Which God will save us? Heidegger and Judaism.