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Record Nr.

UNINA9910949135703321

Autore

Fortis Beniamino

Titolo

Philosophy and Jewish Thought : Theoretical Intersections

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Bielefeld : , : transcript Verlag, , 2024

©2024

ISBN

9783839472927

383947292X

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (187 pages)

Collana

Jüdische Studien Series

Altri autori (Persone)

RinnerEllen

TittmarLars

Disciplina

181.06

Soggetti

SOCIAL SCIENCE / Jewish Studies

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Nota di contenuto

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Preface -- The Legitimacy of Jewish Modernity: Gershom Scholem’s Critique and Reconstruction of Jewish Enlightenment and Science of Judaism from the Spirit of Mystical Gnosticism -- Thinking within the Lehrhaus Collective: Franz Rosenzweig on Jewish Thought and the Everyday -- The Tail or the String of the Kite? Hans-Georg Gadamer, Steven S. Schwarzschild, and Jewish Hermeneutics -- Idolatry and Freedom: Erich Fromm’s View -- Standstill in Utopia: Walter Benjamin’s Philosophy of History and the Ban on Images -- The Approach of an Inverse Theology: A Commentary on the Aesthetic Dimension of the Jewish Prohibition of Idolatry, particularly in Adorno’s and Benjamin’s Philosophical Thinking -- “A Singular Dossier of the Undiscovered”: Intersections between Hans Blumenberg and Aby Warburg -- “One Ought to Pray, Day and Night, for the Thousands”: Etty Hillesum’s Approach to Prayer and Hasidic Thought -- Literary Aspects of Philosophical Writing: The Case of Maimonides’ Guide of the Perplexed -- Authors

Sommario/riassunto

The relationship between philosophy and Jewish thought has often been a matter of lively discussion. But despite its long tradition and the variety of positions that have been taken in it, the debate is far from being closed and keeps meeting new challenges. So far, research on this topic has mostly been based on historically diachronic references,



analogies, or contacts among philosophers and Jewish thinkers. The contributors to this volume, however, propose another way to advance the debate: Rather than adopting a historical approach, they consider the intersections of philosophy and Jewish thought from a theoretical perspective.