1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910786194903321

Autore

Goetschel Willi <1958->

Titolo

The discipline of philosophy and the invention of modern Jewish thought [[electronic resource] /] / Willi Goetschel

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York, : Fordham University Press, 2013

ISBN

0-8232-6621-4

0-8232-5251-5

0-8232-5029-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (280 p.)

Disciplina

181/.06

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy - History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Includes index.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Nota di contenuto

Front matter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Introduction: Disciplining Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought -- 2. Hellenes, Nazarenes, and Other Jews: Heine the Fool -- 3. Jewish Philosophy? The Discourse of a Project -- 4. Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig -- 5. A House of One’s Own? University, Particularity, and the Jewish House of Learning -- 6. Jewish Thought in the Wake of Auschwitz: Margarete Susman’s The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People -- 7. Contradiction Set Free: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s Philosophy out of the Sources of Judaism -- 8. Spinoza’s Smart Worm and the Interplay of Ethics, Politics, and Interpretation -- 9. Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment -- 10. State, Sovereignty, and the Outside Within: Mendelssohn’s View from the “Jewish Colony” -- 11. Mendelssohn and the State -- 12. “An Experiment of How Coincidence May Produce Unanimity of Thoughts”: Enlightenment Trajectories in Kant and Mendelssohn -- Coda -- Notes -- Index

Sommario/riassunto

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks.



Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their “Jewish questions” inform the rethinking of philosophy’s disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just “Jewish philosophy” from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.

2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910971807703321

Autore

Singh Nikky-Guninder

Titolo

Sikhism : An Introduction

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London, : I.B.Tauris, 2011

ISBN

9786613152251

9780857735492

0857735497

9781785398506

1785398504

9781283152259

1283152258

9780857719621

0857719629

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (289 p.)

Collana

I.B. Tauris introductions to religion Sikhism

Disciplina

294.6

Soggetti

Sikhism

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.



Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; Introduction; I. Guru Nanak and the Origins of Sikhism; II. Guru Arjan and the Crystallization of the Skh Faith; Chapter III. Guru Gobind and the Cultivation of Sikh Identity; IV. Sikh Metaphysics, Ethics and Esthetics; V. Worship, Ceremonies and Rites of Passage; VI. Feminist Text in a Patriarchal Context; VII. Colonial Encounters; VIII. Sikh Art; IX. Sikhs in the Diaspora; Glossary of Names and Terms; Illustration, Map and Picture Credits; Select Bibliography; Index

Sommario/riassunto

Almost from the moment, some five centuries ago, that their religion was founded in the Punjab by Guru Nanak, Sikhs have enjoyed a distinctive identity. This sense of difference, forged during Sikhism's fierce struggles with the Mughal Empire, is still symbolised by the 'Five Ks' ('panj kakar', in Punjabi), those articles of faith to which all baptised Sikhs subscribe: uncut hair bound in a turban; comb; special undergarment; iron bracelet and dagger (or kirpan) - the unique marks of the Sikh military fraternity (the word Sikh means 'disciple' in Punjabi). Yet for all its ongoing attachment to