Edmond Jabès was one of the most intriguing Jewish thinkers of the 20th century – a poet for the public and a Kabbalist for those who read his work more closely. This book turns his writings into a ground-breaking philosophical achievement: thinking which is manifestly indebted to the Kabbalah, but in the post-religious and post-Shoah world. Loss, exile, negativity, God's absence, writing and Jewishness are the main signposts of the negative ontology which this book offers as an interpretation of Jabès' work. On the basis of it, the book examines the nature of the miraculous encounter between Judaism and philosophy which occurred in the 20th century. Modern Jewish philosophy is a re-constructed tradition which adapts the intellectual and spiritual legacy of Judaism to answer purely modern questions.
"This work provides an anthology of close textual readings and examinations of a wide range of topics by leading scholars in interreligious scholarship and Hindu-Jewish dialogue, offering innovative approaches to categories such as ritual, sacrifice, ethics, and theology while underscoring affinities between Hindu and Jewish philosophy and religion" --
Liberal democracies need solidarity. They need citizens who sacrifice for their country, rally for justice, and help their neighbors. Yet according to critics of liberalism like Carl Schmitt, the solidarity liberal democracies need comes from sources they cannot themselves produce, like religion. Thus in a time of declining religiosity and rising nationalism, how can we form strong social bonds without racism, demagoguery, and xenophobia? Can we have not only solidarity, but liberal solidarity, in a secular age? Solidarity in a Secular Age responds to Schmitt's challenge by proposing a new liberal-democratic solidarity rooted in personal sacrifice, shared fate, and moral destiny. Narrating an untold story of European political theology and spotlighting a neglected strand of Jewish philosophy, the book diagnoses solidarity's pathologies, reinterprets canonical theorists, and forges a new theoretical path. Part 1 uncovers religion's underlying role in European thinking about solidarity since the Enlightenment through readings of Jean-Jacques Rousseau, Immanuel Kant, and Jürgen Habermas. Each thinker rejects Schmitt's argument. Yet the way they do that, the book shows, is by secularizing different concepts from religion. Their political theologies leave behind not-fully-secularized religious remainders: Rousseau's "general will," Kant's concept of "spontaneity," and Habermas' "linguistification of the sacred." Part 2 reimagines liberal-democratic solidarity by looking to the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Martin Buber, and George Eliot. Rather than secularizing theological ideas, they propose imitating elements of religion in our everyday solidarity with others. They give us resources for responding to Schmitt's challenge, and show how Jewish ideas can contribute to rethinking our social bond for the twenty-first century.
Abstract For many researchers, the new categorical imperative by philosopher Theodor Adorno about thinking and acting in the way so that Auschwitz is never repeated, has become the new starting point for rethinking the rules of practicing the humanities. In the article, I present the postwar history of Jewish thought that has been manifested in the discourse about the Shoah.
Intro -- Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART I: Laying the Groundwork -- 1. Introduction by HEIDI M. RAVVEN AND LENN E. GOODMAN -- 2. What Does Spinoza's Ethics Contribute to Jewish Philosophy? by LENN E. GOODMAN -- PART II: Metaphysics -- 3. Love of God in Spinoza by LEE C. RICE -- 4. Spinoza's Metaphysical Hebraism by WARREN ZEV HARVEY -- 5. Maimonides, Spinoza, and the Problem of Creation by KENNETH SEESKIN -- 6. "That Hebrew Word": Spinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah by WARREN MONTAG -- PART III: Theology and Epistemology -- 7. Maimonides, Spinoza, and the Book of Job by EDWIN M. CURLEY -- 8. Spinoza's Rupture with Tradition- His Hints of a Jewish Modernity by HEIDI M. RAVVEN -- 9. Why Spinoza Chose the Hebrews The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in the Theological-Political Treatise by MICHAEL A. ROSENTHAL -- PART IV: The Historical Setting -- 10. Spinoza's Excommunication by RICHARD H. POPKIN -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.
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Latin American Jewish philosophy requires us to rethink the categories of Philosophy and Judaism. In order to articulate these two dimensions it is necessary to understand that Jewish philosophy must start from the attributes of the Jewish tradition. The matter of the education and Jewishness comes from the beginning of Judaism. Throughout the Twentieth Century, the Diaspora in Modern States acquired its peculiarities in relation to these two dimensions, education and Jewishness. Both aspects have been developed in the work of Franz Rosenzweig, one the most important Jewish philosophers of the century. The main goal of this paper is to rethink the core of Rosenzweig's thought and his dialogues with Martin Buber and Hermann Cohen. Therefore, we will be able to explain the diaspora's peculiarities in relation to Jewish identity and education in Latin America, especially in Argentina.
Violence and Messianism looks at how some of the figures of the so-called Renaissance of "Jewish" philosophy between the two world wars - Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin and Martin Buber - grappled with problems of violence, revolution and war. At once inheriting and breaking with the great historical figures of political philosophy such as Kant and Hegel, they also exerted considerable influence on the next generation of European philosophers, like Lévinas, Derrida and others.
