Ethics of Maimonides (Modern Jewish Philosophy and Religion: Translations and Critical Studies)

✍ Scribed by Hermann Cohen. Translated with commentary by Almut SH. Bruckstein. Foreword by Robert Gibbs

Publisher: University of Wisconsin Press
Year: 2003
Tongue: English
Leaves: 307
Edition: 1
Category: Library

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✦ Synopsis

Hermann Cohen’s essay on Maimonides’ ethics is one of the most fundamental texts of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, correlating Platonic, prophetic, Maimonidean, and Kantian traditions. Almut Sh. Bruckstein provides the first English translation and her own extensive commentary on this landmark 1908 work, which inspired readings of medieval and rabbinic sources by Leo Strauss, Franz Rosenzweig, and Emmanuel Levinas. Cohen rejects the notion that we should try to understand texts of the past solely in the context of their own historical era. Subverting the historical order, he interprets the ethical meanings of texts in the light of a future yet to be realized. He commits the entire Jewish tradition to a universal socialism prophetically inspired by ideals of humanity, peace, and universal justice. Through her own probing commentary on Cohen’s text, like the margin notes of a medieval treatise, Bruckstein performs the hermeneutical act that lies at the core of Cohen’s argument: she reads Jewish sources from a perspective that recognizes the interpretive act of commentary itself.

✦ Table of Contents

Contents......Page 8
Foreword......Page 10
Preface......Page 18
Introduction......Page 22
1. Socrates and Plato: Founders of Ethics......Page 46
2. Maimonides: A Radical Platonist......Page 68
3. The Good beyond Being:Ethico-Political Intricacies of a Medieval Debate......Page 94
4. Religion as Idolatry: How (Not) to Know God......Page 122
5. The “Unity of the Heart”: On Love and Longing (Where Ethical Method Fails)......Page 152
6. Practice and Performance: How (Not) to Walk in Middle Ways......Page 172
7. “He Is (Not) Like You”: How Suffering Commands Self or Soul......Page 190
8. On Eudaemonian Eschatology and Holy History: Zionism as Betrayal of the Ideal......Page 206
9. To Create Messianic Time: A Jewish Critique of Political Utopia......Page 214
10. The Human Face: Anticipating a Future that Is Prior to the Past......Page 224
Abbreviations......Page 240
Notes......Page 242
Bibliography......Page 266
Index......Page 290

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