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30 produkter
Democratic Ideal and the Shoah
The Unthought in Political Modernity
Häftad, 2010
487 kr
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An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews' destiny in modern politics.Is the Shoah a unique event or just one of the many genocides that have occurred (and continue to occur) in modern history? In The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, Shmuel Trigano begins with the hypothesis that the …
Out of Control
Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
Inbunden, 2016
1595 kr
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Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza's answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas's is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, …
Out of Control
Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
Häftad, 2017
487 kr
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Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza's answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas's is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, …
Tragedy of Optimism
Writings on Hermann Cohen
Av Steven S. Schwarzschild, George Y. Kohler
Häftad, 2019
624 kr
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Complete collection of Schwarzschild's essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into …
Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Literary and Photographic Transcendence
Häftad, 2019
549 kr
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Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel …
Levinas and the Torah
A Phenomenological Approach
Häftad, 2020
504 kr
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A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas's religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a …
Portraits
The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel
Inbunden, 2021
1834 kr
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Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic …
Portraits
The Hasidic Legacy of Elie Wiesel
Häftad, 2022
745 kr
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Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching.Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic …
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal
The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Av Don Seeman, Daniel Reiser m. fl.
Häftad, 2022
487 kr
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Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943) was a remarkable …
Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal
The Prewar and Holocaust Legacy of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira
Av Don Seeman, Daniel Reiser m. fl.
Inbunden, 2021
1286 kr
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Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writing constitutes a unique testimony to religious experience and its rupture in the Warsaw Ghetto.Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889–1943) was a remarkable …
Jewish Virtue Ethics
Av Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green m. fl.
Häftad, 2024
528 kr
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Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions …
Jewish Virtue Ethics
Av Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green m. fl.
Inbunden, 2023
1258 kr
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Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions …
Critiques of Theology
German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought
Av Yotam Hotam
Inbunden, 2023
1286 kr
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Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological …
Critiques of Theology
German-Jewish Intellectuals and the Religious Sources of Secular Thought
Av Yotam Hotam
Häftad, 2024
463 kr
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Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them.It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological …
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
Otto Heller (1897–1945)
Av Tom Navon
Inbunden, 2024
1286 kr
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An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which …
Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust
Otto Heller (1897–1945)
Av Tom Navon
Häftad, 2024
625 kr
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An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which …
Revolutionary Legacies
Jewish Feminist Political Thinking with Jamaica Kincaid, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, and Emma Goldman
Häftad, 2025
378 kr
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Thinks with a range of extraordinary Jewish women about how to live vibrant lives and resist the settler colonialism at the heart of the modern project of freedom.This book provides a timely new transnational lineage of Jewish feminist revolutionary legacies. Using extensive research, deep …
Revolutionary Legacies
Jewish Feminist Political Thinking with Jamaica Kincaid, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, and Emma Goldman
Inbunden, 2025
1291 kr
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Thinks with a range of extraordinary Jewish women about how to live vibrant lives and resist the settler colonialism at the heart of the modern project of freedom.This book provides a timely new transnational lineage of Jewish feminist revolutionary legacies. Using extensive research, deep …
Philosopher as Witness
Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust
Av Michael L. Morgan, Benjamin Pollock
Inbunden, 2008
1087 kr
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Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the …
Philosopher as Witness
Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust
Av Michael L. Morgan, Benjamin Pollock
Häftad, 2009
401 kr
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Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.Emil Fackenheim (1916–2003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the …
Philosophy and Kabbalah
Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism
Inbunden, 2009
1111 kr
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Reconciles the conflict between these two seemingly diverse traditions.Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823–1900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan origins. Although the relationship between Kabbalah and philosophy has always …
Philosophy and Kabbalah
Elijah Benamozegh and the Reconciliation of Western Thought and Jewish Esotericism
Häftad, 2010
401 kr
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Reconciles the conflict between these two seemingly diverse traditions.Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823–1900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan origins. Although the relationship between Kabbalah and philosophy has always …
Democratic Ideal and the Shoah
The Unthought in Political Modernity
Inbunden, 2009
1087 kr
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An original and revolutionary interpretation of the Jews' destiny in modern politics.Is the Shoah a unique event or just one of the many genocides that have occurred (and continue to occur) in modern history? In The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah, Shmuel Trigano begins with the hypothesis that the …
Other Others
Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies
Häftad, 2011
401 kr
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Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other."In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social …
Other Others
Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies
Inbunden, 2010
1111 kr
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Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other."In literary and cultural studies today, the term "the Other" appears to have largely lost its moorings in the primacy of the intersubjective encounter, focusing rather on the social …
Sharing the Burden
Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Häftad, 2016
390 kr
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Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that …
Sharing the Burden
Rabbi Simḥah Zissel Ziv and the Path of Musar
Inbunden, 2015
1111 kr
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Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that …
Tragedy of Optimism
Writings on Hermann Cohen
Av Steven S. Schwarzschild, George Y. Kohler
Inbunden, 2018
1111 kr
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Complete collection of Schwarzschild's essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924–1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842–1918), undertaking a lifelong effort to reintroduce Cohen's thought into …
Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable
Literary and Photographic Transcendence
Inbunden, 2018
1278 kr
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Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil.Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel …
Levinas and the Torah
A Phenomenological Approach
Inbunden, 2019
1111 kr
Tillfälligt slut
A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas's religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a …
