Avi Sagi
Subtitle: existentialism, pluralism, and identity
By: edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes
Series: Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers -- volume 10
Publisher: Brill
Published: 2015
Place of publication: Leiden; Boston
Language: eng
Number of pages: 193
ISBN-13: 9789004280809; 9789004280816
Subjects: Philosophy; Jewish philosophy
Description: "Avi Sagi is professor of philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. A philosopher, literary critic, scholar of cultural studies, historian and philosopher of halakhah, public intellectual, social critic, and educator, Sagi has written most lucidly on the challenges that face humanity, Judaism, and Israeli society today. As an intertextual thinker, Sagi integrates numerous strands within contemporary philosophy, while critically engaging Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. Offering an insightful defense of pluralism and multiculturalism, his numerous writings integrate philosophy, religion, theology, jurisprudence, psychology, art, literature, and politics, charting a new path for Jewish thought in the twenty-first century"--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (pages 185-193).