Studies the Neo-Kantian Idea of Humanity in both philosophy and theology, which represents the finest achievement of German intellectual history from Lessing to Hermann Cohen. This volume shows the idea's force in tradition, its decline, and the following rise in the nationalism and folk mysticism that characterized Hitler's Germany. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
Studies the Neo-Kantian Idea of Humanity in both philosophy and theology, which represents the finest achievement of German intellectual history from Lessing to Hermann Cohen. This volume shows the idea's force in tradition, its decline, and the following rise in the nationalism and folk mysticism that characterized Hitler's Germany. Co-published with Studies in Judaism.
Presents a summary of the philosophical views of French thinker Eric Weil. The major innovation of Weil's discourse is to embody absolute knowledge in the discourse of such categories as truth, discussion, object, self, God, condition, consciousness, intelligence, personality, the absolute, the unmediated particular, the finite, action, meaning, and wisdom.