Modern Jewish thinkers
Subtitle: from Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig
By: Gershon Greenberg
Series: Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah; Emunot
Publisher: Academic Studies Press
Published: 2011
Place of publication: Brighton, MA
Language: eng
Number of pages: 496
ISBN-13: 9781936235315; 9781936235469
Subjects: Jewish philosophy
Description: Historical conditions at the end of the eighteenth century opened an arena between the formerly autonomous Jewish community and the Christian world, which yielded new departure points for philosophy, including revelation and philosophical reason, dialectically considered; rationalism as intellection and advancing consciousness, heteronymous revelation, historicity, and universal morality. In Modern Jewish Thinkers, Greenberg restructures the history of modern Jewish thought comprehensively, providing first-time English translations of Reggio, Krokhmal, Maimon, Samuel Hirsch, Formstecher, Steinheim, Ascher, Einhorn, Samuel David Luzzatto and Hermann Cohen. The availability of these sources fills a gap in the field and stimulates new directions for teaching and scholarly research in modern Jewish thought, going beyond Spinoza and Mendelssohn at one end, and to popular 20th century figures on the other. --From publisher's description.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: The dialectical truth; title: Intellection and developing consciousness; title: Heteronomous revelation; title: History; title: Universal morality; title: Through the twentieth century.