Explores the impact on Jews and Judaism of the crisis of modernity, analyzing modern Jewish dilemmas and providing a prescription for their resolution.
Modern Jewish Thought on Crisis. Interpretation, Heresy, and History
β Scribed by Ghilad H. Shenhav, Cedric Cohen-Skalli, Gilad Sharvit (eds.)
- Publisher
- Walter de Gruyter
- Year
- 2024
- Tongue
- English
- Leaves
- 336
- Series
- ReligiΓΆse Positionierungen in Judentum, Christentum und Islam 7
- Edition
- 1.
- Category
- Library
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β¦ Table of Contents
Foreword to the Series
Foreword of the editors in light of the events of October 7, 2023
Table of Contents
Introduction
Part One: Interpretation
Mashber: Crisis, Birth, Hebrew Version
The Crisis of Democracy and the Turn to Tradition: Habermas and Benjamin
Crisis, Decision, and Deferral: German-Jewish Thinkers vs. Carl Schmitt
Derrida and Levinas on Political Hospitality
On the Crisis of Jewish Law: Auerbach, Luther, and Realism
Part Two: Heresy and Rupture
The Theologico-Political Predicament, Zionism, and the Crisis of Heresy: Leo Strauss and Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar
Prophetic Politics: Back to Theology
Between Betrayal and Innovation: Scholem on the Marrano Crisis of Tradition
Talking with Heretics: Tracing a Theme in Moses Mendelssohnβs Jerusalem and Classical Rabbinic Literature
Part Three: History
Leo Strauss in Paris 1933: A Missed Opportunity for a Dialogical Understanding of the Crisis of Liberalism
Death and the Infinitization of Finitude: Negation and the Ethical Crisis of Modernity in Edith Wyschogrodβs Postmodern Hermeneutic
The βHermeneutic Triangleβ of Modern Judaism: βGod,β βHistory,β and βMeaningβ
Is Jewish Exile a Crisis? Zionism, Modern Jewish Thought, and the Historical Dynamics of the Term
List of Contributors
Index of names
Index of topics
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