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Radical Assimilation In The Face Of The Holocaust - Otto Heller (1897â€“1945)

by Tom Navon

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 An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.
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Radical Assimilation In The Face Of The Holocaust - Otto Heller (1897-1945)

by Tom Navon

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 An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question.
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Critiques Of Theology - German-Jewish Intellectuals And The Religious Sources Of Secular Thought

by Yotam Hotam

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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 argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousness''s potential to deliver modernity''s promise of human progress through rational inquiry and scientific development. Critiques of Theology debunks this common understanding. Based on a novel reading of previously less-discussed writings by Sigmund Freud, Walter Benjamin, Theodor Adorno, and Hannah Arendt, the book shows how the practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can, in many ways, be traced back to them. This study points to a persistent misreading of critique and demonstrates that it does not come from outside of religion to build a new world of ideas; on the contrary, it redeploys those already present within its theological constellations.
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Jewish Virtue Ethics

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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 of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue.Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.
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Holocaust And The Nonrepresentable - Literary And Photographic Transcendence

by David Patterson

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 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''s contention that the Good cannot be represented. He argues that the assault on the Good is equally nonrepresentable and this nonrepresentable aspect of the Holocaust is its distinguishing feature. Utilizing Jewish religious thought, Patterson examines how the literary word expresses the ineffable and how the photographic image manifests the invisible. Where the Holocaust is concerned, representation is a matter not of imagination but of ethical implication, not of what it was like but of what must be done. Ultimately Patterson provides a deeper understanding of why the Holocaust itself is indefinable—not only as an evil but also as a fundamental assault on the very categories of good and evil affirmed over centuries of Jewish teaching and testimony.
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Tragedy Of Optimism - Writings On Hermann Cohen

by Steven S. Schwarzschild

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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 contemporary philosophical discourse. In The Tragedy of Optimism, George Y. Kohler brings together all of Schwarzschild''s work on Cohen for the first time. Schwarzschild''s readings of Cohen are unique and profound; he was conversant with both worlds that shaped Cohen''s thought, neo-Kantian German idealism and Jewish theology. The collection covers a wide range of subjects, from ethics, socialism, the concept of human selfhood, and the mathematics of the infinite to more explicitly Jewish themes. This volume includes two of Schwarzschild''s previously unpublished manuscripts and a scholarly introduction by Kohler. Schwarzschild shows that despite its seeming defeat by events of the twentieth century, Cohen''s optimism about human progress is a rational, indeed necessary, path to peace.
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Out Of Control - Confrontations Between Spinoza And Levinas

by Richard A. Cohen

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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, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontations between them in ethics, politics, science, and religion.Spinoza is the control, the inexorable defensive logic of administrative rationality, where freedom is equated to necessity-a seventeenth-century glimpse of Orwellian doublespeak and Big Brother. Levinas is the way out: transcendence not of God, being, and logic but of the other person experienced as moral obligation. To alleviate the suffering of others-nothing is more important! Spinoza wagers everything on mathematical truth, discarding the rest as ignorance and illusion; for Levinas, nothing surpasses the priorities of morality and justice, to create a world in which humans can be human and not numbers or consumers, drudges or robots.Situating these two thinkers in today''s context, Out of Control responds to the fear of dehumanization in a world flattened by the alliance of positivism and plutocracy. It offers a nonideological ethical alternative, a way out and up, in the nobility of one human being helping another, and the solidarity that moves from morality to justice.
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Levinas And The Torah - A Phenomenological Approach

by Richard I. Sugarman

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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 phenomenological approach, drawing on both Levinas''s philosophical and Jewish writings. Sugarman puts Levinas in conversation with biblical commentators both classical and modern, including Rashi, Maimonides, Sforno, Hirsch, and Soloveitchik. He particularly highlights Levinas''s work on the Talmud and the Holocaust. Levinas''s reading is situated against the background of a renewed understanding of such phenomena as covenant, promise, different modalities of time, and justice. The volume is organized to reflect the fifty-four portions of the Torah read during the Jewish liturgical year. A preface provides an overview of Levinas''s life, approach, and place in contemporary Jewish thought. The reader emerges with a deeper understanding of both the Torah and the philosophy of a key Jewish thinker.
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The Philosopher As Witness - Fackenheim And Responses To The Holocaust

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 Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.Emil Fackenheim (19162003), one of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century, called on the world at large not only to bear witness to the Holocaust as an unprecedented assault on Judaism and on humanity, but also to recognize that the question of what it means to philosophize-indeed, what it means to be human-must be raised anew in its wake. The Philosopher as Witness begins with two recent essays written by Fackenheim himself and includes responses to the questions that Fackenheim posed to philosophy, Judaism, and humanity after the Holocaust. The contributors to this book dare to extend that questioning through a critical examination of Fackenheim's own thought and through an exploration of some of the ramifications of his work for fields of study and realms of religious life that transcend his own.
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Revolutionary Legacies - Jewish Feminist Political Thinking With Jamaica Kincaid, Golda Meir, Hannah Arendt, Frida Kahlo, Gertrude Stein, And Emma Goldman

by Marla (Univ New Hampshire) Brettschneider

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Critiques Of Theology - German-Jewish Intellectuals And The Religious Sources Of Secular Thought

by Yotam Hotam

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Critiques Of Theology - German-Jewish Intellectuals And The Religious Sources Of Secular Thought

by Yotam Hotam

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Jewish Virtue Ethics

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Jewish Virtue Ethics

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Out Of Control - Confrontations Between Spinoza And Levinas

by Richard A. Cohen

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Hasidism, Suffering, And Renewal - The Prewar And Holocaust Legacy Of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

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Hasidism, Suffering, And Renewal - The Prewar And Holocaust Legacy Of Rabbi Kalonymus Kalman Shapira

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Portraits - The Hasidic Legacy Of Elie Wiesel

by David Patterson

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Portraits - The Hasidic Legacy Of Elie Wiesel

by David Patterson

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Levinas And The Torah - A Phenomenological Approach

by Richard I. Sugarman

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Levinas And The Torah - A Phenomenological Approach

by Richard I. Sugarman

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The Holocaust And The Nonrepresentable - Literary And Photographic Transcendence

by David Patterson

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The Tragedy Of Optimism - Writings On Hermann Cohen

by Steven S. Schwarzschild

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Other Others - Levinas, Literature, Transcultural Studies

by Steven Shankman

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 Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinass notion of the Other.
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