The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era: Volume 2

Cambridge University Press, 5/7/2012
EAN 9780521852432, ISBN10: 0521852439

Hardcover, 891 pages, 23.4 x 15 x 5.8 cm
Language: English
Originally published in English

The second volume of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy provides a comprehensive overview of Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field, its essays examine how Jewish thinking was modified in its encounter with modern Europe and America and challenge longstanding assumptions about the nature and purpose of modern Jewish philosophy. The volume also treats modern Jewish philosophy's continuities with premodern texts and thinkers, the relationship between philosophy and theology, the ritual and political life of the people of Israel and the ways in which classic modern philosophical categories help or hinder Jewish self-articulation. These essays offer readers a multi-faceted understanding of the Jewish philosophical enterprise in the modern period.

Introduction Martin Kavka
Part I. Judaism's Encounter with Modernity
1. Enlightenment Willi Goetschel
2. The spirit of Jewish history Samuel Moyn
3. Phenomenology Martin Kavka
4. America Ken Koltun-Fromm
5. Feminism and gender Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Part II. Retrieving Tradition
6. Scripture and text Peter Ochs
7. Medieval Jewish philosophers in modern Jewish philosophy Aaron W. Hughes
8. Jewish enlightenment beyond Western Europe Adam Shear
9. Hasidism, mitnagdism, and contemporary American Judaism Shaul Magid
Part III. Modern Jewish Philosophical Theology
10. God
divine transcendence Aryeh Botwinick
11. God
divine immanence Gregory Kaplan
12. Creation Navid Novak
13. Revelation Randi Rashkover
14. Redemption Norbert M. Samuelson
15. Providence
agencies of redemption Michael L. Morgan
Part IV. Jewish Peoplehood
16. Halakah Avi Sagi
17. Liturgy Steven Kepnes
18. Jews alongside non-Jews Shmuel Trigano
19. Political theory
beyond sovereignty? Leora Batnitzky
20. Zionism Zachary Braiterman
Part V. Issues in Modern Jewish Philosophy
21. Reason as a paradigm in Jewish philosophy Kenneth Seeskin
22. Imagination and theolatrous impulse
configuring God in modern Jewish thought Elliot R. Wolfson
23. Justice Michael Zank
24. Virtue Dov Nelkin
25. Aesthetics and art Asher Biemann
26. Interpretation, modernity, and the philosophy of Judaism Jonathan W. Malino.