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Record Nr.

UNINA9910818724803321

Titolo

Eliezer Schweid [[electronic resource] ] : the responsibility of Jewish philosophy / / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Aaron W. Hughes ; translated by Leonard Levin

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Boston, : Brill, 2013

ISBN

90-04-24979-6

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (270 p.)

Collana

Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers, , 2213-6010 ; ; v. 1

Altri autori (Persone)

Tirosh-SamuelsonHava <1950->

HughesAaron W. <1968->

LevinLeonard

Disciplina

181/.06

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Medieval

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 26, 2013).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

Preliminary Material -- Eliezer Schweid: An Intellectual Portrait / Leonard Levin -- Judaism as a Culture / Eliezer Schweid -- Faith Confronting the Experiences of Our Age / Eliezer Schweid -- Humanism, Globalization, Postmodernism, and the Jewish People / Eliezer Schweid -- The Drama of Secular History: The Return to Nature and Exit from the Other Side / Eliezer Schweid -- Interview with Eliezer Schweid / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Leonard Levin -- Select Bibliography.

Sommario/riassunto

This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s philosophy of Judaism for a secular age. The volume brings together four of Schweid’s most original and influential philosophical essays and an interview with him that together express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, freely choosing loyalty to his or her national culture and drawing on Jewish heritage to inform how to act responsibly toward one’s neighbor, one’s people, the world, and God. The themes span the gamut of Schweid’s life work: the existential loneliness of the modern Jew; Judaism as a culture; faith in light of the Holocaust; and appreciation for secular humanism with awareness of its shortcomings, given the enduring legacy of the Jewish biblical heritage.