The Bloomsbury companion to Jewish studies

"The Continuum Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume will survey the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on methodologies, current themes, and varieties of source materials available. Significantly, the volume also includes eleven essays from internationallly renowned scholars that provide an important and useful overview of Jewish history and the development of Judaism, and explore central themes in Jewish Studies that cut across historical periods and offer important opportunities to track significant developments across Jewish experiences. In addition to an annotated bibliography to help orient students and researchers, the volume includes a series of indispensable research tools, including a chronology, maps, and an extensive glossary of key terms and concepts necessary as one engages various fields within Jewish Studies. This is the essential reference guide for anyone working in this field"--

Notes on Contributors ; Acknowledgments ; Abbreviation List ; Editors' Introduction -- Part I: Life and Contexts. 1. Heidegger and the Question of Biography (Ted Kisiel) ; 2. The Early Heidegger (Dermot Moran) ; 3. The Turn: All Three of Them (Thomas Sheehan) ; 4. Heidegger in the 1930s: Who Are We? (Richard Polt) ; 5. Heidegger, Nietzsche, National Socialism (Robert Bernasconi) ; 6. The Later Heidegger (Fran oise Dastur) ; 7. Heidegger's Correspondence (Alfred Denker) -- Part II: Sources, Influences, and Encounters. 8. Heidegger and Greek Philosophy (Sean Kirkland) ; 9. Heidegger and Medieval Philosophy (Holger Zaborowski) ; 10. Heidegger and Descartes (Emilia Angelova) ; 11. Heidegger and Kant (Frank Schalow) ; 12. Heidegger and German Idealism (Peter Trawny) ; 13. Heidegger and Nietzsche (Ullrich Haase) ; 14. Heidegger and Dilthey (Eric S. Nelson) ; 15. Heidegger and Husserl (Leslie MacAvoy) ; 16. Heidegger, Neo-Kantianism, and Cassirer (Peter Gordon) ; 17. Heidegger and Carnap: Disagreeing about Nothing? (Eric S. Nelson) ; 18. Heidegger and Arendt: The Lawful Space of Worldly Appearance (Peg Birmingham) ; 19. Heidegger and Gadamer (Emilia Angelova) ; 20. Heidegger and Marcuse (Andrew Feenberg) -- Part III: Key Writings. 21. Early Lecture Courses (Scott Campbell) ; 22. Heidegger, Persuasion, and Aristotle's Rhetoric (P. Christopher Smith) ; 23. Being and Time (Dennis Schmidt) ; 24. The Origin of the Work of Art (Gregory Schufreider) ; 25. Introduction to Metaphysics (Gregory Fried) ; 26. Contributions to Philosophy (Peter Trawny) ; 27. The H lderlin lectures (Will McNeill) ; 28. The "Letter on Humanism" (Andrew Mitchell) ; 29. The Bremen Lectures (Andrew Mitchell) ; 30. Later Essays and Seminars (Lee Braver) -- Part IV: Themes and Topics. 31. Art (Andrew Bowie) ; 32. Birth and Death (Anne O'Byrne) ; 33. The Body (Kevin Aho) ; 34. Dasein (Fran ois Raffoul) ; 35. Ereignis (Daniela Vallega-Neu ; 36. Ethics (Fran ois Raffoul) ; 37. The Fourfold (Andrew Mitchell) ; 38. Language (John McCumber) ; 39. The Nothing (Gregory Schufreider) ; 40. Ontotheology (Iain Thomson) ; 41. Religion and Theology (Ben Vedder) ; 42. Science (Patricia Glazebrook) ; 43. Space (John Russon and Kirsten Jacobson) ; 44. Technology (Hans Ruin) ; 45. Truth (Dan Dahlstrom) -- Part V: Reception and Influence. 46. Heidegger and Sartre (Robert Bernasconi) ; 47. Heidegger and Merleau-Ponty (Wayne Froman) ; 48. Heidegger and Adorno (Iain Macdonald) ; 49. Heidegger and Levinas (Jill Stauffer) ; 50. Heidegger and Derrida (Fran ois Raffoul) ; 51. Heidegger and Foucault (Leonard Lawlor) ; 52. Heidegger and Deleuze (Janae Sholtz and Leonard Lawlor) ; 53. Heidegger's Anglo-American Reception (Leslie MacAvoy) ; 54. Heidegger and Environmental Philosophy (Patricia Glazebrook) ; 55. Heidegger and Gender (Tina Chanter) ; 56. Heidegger and Post-Cartesian Psychoanalysis (Robert D. Stolorow) ; 57. Heidegger and Asian Philosophy (Bret Davis) ; 58. Heidegger and Latin American Philosophy (Alejandro Vallega) -- Index.

Martin Heidegger is one of the twentieth century's most important philosophers. His ground-breaking works have had a hugely significant impact on contemporary thought through their reception, appropriation and critique. His thought has influenced philosophers as diverse as Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Arendt, Adorno, Gadamer, Levinas, Derrida and Foucault, among others. In addition to his formative role in philosophical movements such as phenomenology, hermeneutics and existentialism, structuralism and post-structuralism, deconstruction and post-modernism, Heidegger has had a transformative effect o

The Bloomsbury Companion to Jewish Studies is a comprehensive reference guide, providing an overview of Jewish Studies as it has developed as an academic sub-discipline. This volume surveys the development and current state of research in the broad field of Jewish Studies - focusing on central themes, methodologies, and varieties of source materials available. It includes 11 core essays from internationally-renowned scholars and teachers that provide an important and useful overview of Jewish history and the development of Judaism, while exploring central issues in Jewish Studies that cut acro