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Record Nr.

UNINA9910457678403321

Autore

Sagi Abraham

Titolo

Jewish Religion After Theology / / Avi Sagi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, MA : , : Academic Studies Press, , [2009]

©2009

ISBN

1-61811-095-0

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (264 p.)

Collana

Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah

Classificazione

11.24

Altri autori (Persone)

SteinBatya

Disciplina

296.3

Soggetti

PHILOSOPHY

Movements / Existentialism

Judaism - Doctrines

Jewish philosophy

Religion

Philosophy & Religion

Judaism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- Chapter One. Are Toleration and Pluralism Possible in Jewish Religion? -- Chapter Two. Yeshayahu Leibovitz: The Man against his Thought -- Chapter Three. Leibowitz and Camus: Between Faith and the Absurd -- Chapter Four. Jewish Religion without Theology -- Chapter Five. The Critique of Theodicy: From Metaphysics to Praxis -- Chapter Six. The Holocaust: A Theological or a Religious-Existentialist Problem? -- Chapter Seven. Tikkun Olam: Between Utopian Idea and Socio-Historical Process -- Bibliography -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Jewish Religion after Theology ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various manifestations. The central figure of this new examination is Isaiah Leibowitz, whose thoughts encapsulate more than any other Jewish thinker this stance of religion without metaphysics. Sagi explores



corresponding issues such as observance, the possibility of pluralism, the meaning of penance without messianic suppositions, and pragmatic coping with theodicy after the Holocaust, presenting the different possibilities within this great alteration in Jewish thought.