Encounters of consequence
Subtitle: Jewish philosophy in the twentieth century and beyond
By: By Michael Oppenheim.
Series: Judaism and jewish life
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 408
ISBN-13: 9781934843673
Subjects: Jewish philosophy -- History -- 20th century; Jewish philosophers -- History -- 20th century; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Some underlying issues of modern Jewish philosophy; title: Does Judaism have universal significance?; title: Death and the fear of death in Franz Rosenzweig's The star of redemption; title: The Halevi book; title: Into life : Rosenzweig's essays on God, man and the world; title: The meaning of Hasidism : Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem; title: Autobiography and the becoming of the self : Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell; title: Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas : a midrash or thought-experiment; title: Welcoming the other : the philosophical foundation for pluralism in the works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas; title: Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Soren Kierkegaard : reflections on The lonely man of faith; title: Eliezer Schweid : the first Israeli philosopher; title: Can we still stay with him? : two Jewish theologians confront the Holocaust (Emil Fackenheim and Arthur Cohen); title: Theology and community : the work of Emil Fackenheim; title: Irving Greenberg : a Jewish dialectic of hope; title: Feminist Jewish philosophy : a response.