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Religion or Halakha
The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik
Av Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2007
2905 kr
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Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s philosophy plays a significant role in twentieth century Jewish thought. This book focuses on the first stages of Soloveitchik’s philosophy, through a systematic and detailed discussion of his essay Halakhic Man. Schwartz analyzes this essay at three main levels: first, he …
Emil L. Fackenheim
Philosopher, Theologian, Jew
Av Sharon Portnoff, Jim Diamond m. fl.
Inbunden, 2008
2570 kr
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Emil L. Fackenheim: Philosopher, Theologian, Jew is a scholarly tribute to Fackenheim’s memory. Fackenheim’s combination of erudition and generosity served to inspire a lifetime of philosophical inquiry, and a number of his students are represented in this volume. The volume, in order to provide a …
Classic Jewish Philosophers
From Saadia Through the Renaissance
Inbunden, 2007
2770 kr
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This book provides a standard reference of the major medieval Jewish philosophers, as well as an eminently readable narrative of the course of medieval Jewish philosophical thought, presented as a response to the spiritual-intellectual challenges facing Judaism in that period.The accounts of …
Philosophy, Theology, and Politics
A Reading of Benedict Spinoza’s Tractatus theologico-politicus
Av Paul Bagley
Inbunden, 2008
2515 kr
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The interpretation of Spinoza’s theologico-political teaching remains a matter of controversy. Is Spinoza simply addressing contemporary difficulties in The Netherlands of the late 1660s? Or is he attempting to solve a more basic and enduring human problem? In this book, it is argued that against …
From Judah Hadassi to Elijah Bashyatchi
Studies in Late Medieval Karaite Philosophy
Inbunden, 2008
3117 kr
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The present study is a pioneering account of the development of late medieval Karaite Jewish thought, challenging the oft-repeated assertion that Karaite thinkers remained loyal to Kalām, the dominant theological philosophy during the earlier Golden Age of Karaism. A careful reading of Karaite …
Renaissance Philosophy in Jewish Garb
Foundations and Challenges in Judaism on the Eve of Modernity
Inbunden, 2008
3117 kr
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Based on several years of research on Jewish intellectual life in the Renaissance, this book tries to distinguish the coordinates of “modernity” as premises of Jewish philosophy, and vice versa. In the first part, it is concerned with the foundations of Jewish philosophy, its nature as …
Cultures of Maimonideanism
New Approaches to the History of Jewish Thought
Inbunden, 2009
3495 kr
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In the history of Jewish thought, no individual scholar has exercised more influence than Maimonides (1138-1204) – philosopher and physician, legal scholar and communal leader. This collection of papers, originating at the 2007 EAJS colloquium, places primary emphasis on this influence – not on …
Mystery of the Earth
Mysticism and Hasidism in the Thought of Martin Buber
Av Israel Koren
Inbunden, 2010
2884 kr
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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. While most scholars …
Serpent Kills or the Serpent Gives Life
The Kabbalist Abraham Abulafia’s Response to Christianity
Inbunden, 2011
3326 kr
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Abraham Abulafia (1240 – c. 1291) founded an enormously influential branch of Jewish mysticism, referred to as the prophetic or ecstatic kabbalah. This book, from several perspectives, explores the impact of Christianity upon Abulafia. His copious writings evince an intense fascination with …
"Without Any Doubt"
Gersonides on Method and Knowledge
Inbunden, 2011
2999 kr
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Gersonides—Rabbi Levi ben Gershom (Provence, 1288–1344)—was a multifaceted thinker. Endowed with his original and critical mind, he did not accept the authority of his predecessors but investigated every matter for himself. His extraordinary attention to method—both of inquiry and of writing—stands …
National Element in Hermann Cohen's Philosophy and Religion
Inbunden, 2012
2425 kr
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Hermann Cohen was a passionate philosopher whose national engagement was an integral component of his work. This national engagement comprised a cultural 'Germanness' (Deutschtum), ethically oriented to the state, and a religious Judaism beyond the political. These two forms of "nationality" …
Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah
Inbunden, 2012
2583 kr
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In Knowledge of God and the Development of Early Kabbalah, Jonathan Dauber offers a fresh consideration of the emergence and early development of Kabbalah against the backdrop of a re-evaluation of the relationship between early Kabbalistic and philosophic discourse. He argues that the first …
From Phenomenology to Existentialism
The Philosophy of Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik, Volume 2
Av Dov Schwartz
Inbunden, 2012
3140 kr
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Rabbi Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s philosophy plays a significant role in twentieth century Jewish thought. This book focuses on the first and the second stages of Soloveitchik’s philosophy (1945-1965), through a systematic and detailed discussion of some of his essays, including "From There You Shall …
Hekhalot Literature in Translation
Major Texts of Merkavah Mysticism
Av James Davila
Inbunden, 2013
3158 kr
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The Hekhalot literature is a motley collection of textually fluid and often textually corrupt documents in Hebrew and Aramaic which deal with mystical themes pertaining especially to God's throne-chariot (the Merkavah). They were composed between late antiquity and the early Middle Ages, with roots …
Simon Dubnow's "New Judaism"
Diaspora Nationalism and the World History of the Jews
Inbunden, 2013
2257 kr
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In this volume Robert Seltzer examines Simon Dubnow (1860-1941) as the most eminent East European Jewish historian of his day and a spokesperson for his people, setting out to define their identity in the future based on his understanding of their past. Rejecting Zionism and Jewish socialism …
Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum
An Analysis of Her Diaries and Letters
Inbunden, 2014
4593 kr
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In The Existential Philosophy of Etty Hillesum Meins G.S. Coetsier breaks new ground by demonstrating the Jewish existential nature of Etty Hillesum’s spiritual and cultural life in light of the writings of Martin Buber, Emmanuel Levinas and Dietrich Bonhoeffer. Hillesum’s diaries and letters, …
Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century
Personal Reflections
Av Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Aaron W. Hughes
Inbunden, 2014
3965 kr
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Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century encourages contemporary Jewish thinkers to reflect on the meaning of Judaism in the modern world by connecting these reflections to their own personal biographies. In so doing, it reveals the complexity of Jewish thought in the present moment. The …
In Silence and Out Loud: Yeshayahu Leibowitz in Israeli Context
Av Gideon Katz
Inbunden, 2024
2075 kr
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Yeshayahu Leibowitz (1903–1994) was an Israeli philosopher and scientist. For decades, his thinking and persona were the embodiment of a Judaism that was vital, rebuking, involved, and committed to all the Jews of Israel. As seen in this book, Leibowitz’s far-reaching public statements are not a …
“And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On The Language of Mystical Union in Judaism
Inbunden, 2016
2400 kr
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In “And They Shall Be One Flesh”: On the Language of Mystical Union in Judaism, Adam Afterman offers an extensive study of mystical union and embodiment in Judaism. Afterman argues that Philo was the first to articulate the notion of unio mystica in Judaism and is the source of the henōsis …
"Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics
Inbunden, 2021
2570 kr
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The articles collected in "Into Life." Franz Rosenzweig on Knowledge, Aesthetics, and Politics focus on the significance of Franz Rosenzweig's work far beyond the realms of theology and philosophy of religion. They engage with a wide range of issues in philosophy and offer new insights, both by …
History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy
Volume V: Creating New Jewish Centers. The Visionaries of First Fulfillment in the Land of Israel
Inbunden, 2024
3287 kr
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The period of the Yishuv (1900–48) saw a flourishing of creative thinkers who reworked the contours of Jewish and Zionist thought while building the Jewish homeland. Eliezer Schweid, who grew up during the period he describes here, writes profoundly and sympathetically about these thinkers—Gordon, …
History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy
Volume VI: From Exile to Exile, Ultra-Orthodox Responses to the Holocaust and Establishing the New Jewish Center in America
Inbunden, 2025
2280 kr
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Schweid concludes his history of modern Jewish thought by narrating two major progressions in Diaspora Jewish thought of the early twentieth century: (1) the varied responses of ultra-Orthodox Diaspora Jewish thinkers to the Holocaust (Wasserman, Shapira, Ashlag, Dessler, Teichthal, Rokeaḥ, and …
Winged Words: Benjamin, Rosenzweig, and the Life of Quotation
Inbunden, 2023
2183 kr
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This is the first book to explore the role of quotation in modern Jewish thought. Weaving back and forth from Benjamin to Rosenzweig, the book searches for the recovery of concealed and lost meaning in the community of letters, sacred scripture, the collecting of books, storytelling, and the life …
Confronting Kabbalah: Studies in the Christian Hebraist Library of Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter
Inbunden, 2024
4142 kr
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Johann Albrecht Widmanstetter (1506–1557), humanist and privy councillor to popes and kings, has remained an enigmatic figure among Christian Hebraists whose views were little understood. This study leverages Widmanstetter's remarkable collection consisting of hundreds of Jewish manuscripts and …
Emmanuel Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Jewish Thought
Inbunden, 2025
3101 kr
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These essays unfold a complex picture from phenomenology to Talmudic readings. The essays show how radically Levinas expanded genetic phenomenology toward preconscious and intersubjective affectivity. They discuss Levinas' appropriation of Heidegger’s early hermeneutics as secular revelation of …
History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy
Volume II: The Birth of Jewish Historical Studies and the Modern Jewish Religious Movements
Inbunden, 2015
2693 kr
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The culmination of Eliezer Schweid’s life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical …
