New directions in Jewish philosophy
By: edited by Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson.
Contributors: Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-; Wolfson, Elliot R.
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Bloomington
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780253300317; 9780253221643
Subjects: Jewish philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Introduction: charting an alternative course for the study of Jewish philosophy / Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson; title: Screening the canon: Levinas and medieval Jewish philosophy / Martin Kavka; title: Precursorship and the forgetting of history: Franz Rosenzweig and Saadya Gaon on the memory of translation / Aaron W. Hughes; title: Light does not talk but shines: apophasis and vision in Rosenzweig's theopoetic temporality / Elliot R. Wolfson; title: Textual body landscapes and the artist's geometry of Talmud: atelier-work with the materiality of scripture / Almut Sh. Bruckstein; title: Construction of animals in medieval Jewish philosophy / Kalman P. Bland; title: Sharing secrets: inter-confessional philosophy as dialogical practice / Steven M. Wasserstrom; title: Ethical-political universality out of the sources of Judaism: reading Hermann Cohen's 1888 affidavit in and out of context / Dana Hollander; title: What is the sophist? Who is the rabbi? / Sergey Dolgopolski; title: Forging a new righteous nation: Maimonides' midrashic interweave of verse and text / James A. Diamond; title: Aesthetics and the infinite: moses mendelssohn on the poetics of biblical prophecy; title: Michah Gottlieb.