04571nam 2200781 a 450 991046333020332120200520144314.097866139400013-11-024773-91-283-62755-810.1515/9783110247732(CKB)2670000000279373(EBL)893844(OCoLC)811962799(SSID)ssj0000777233(PQKBManifestationID)12361175(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777233(PQKBWorkID)10754918(PQKB)11024593(SSID)ssj0000797745(PQKBManifestationID)12379857(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000797745(PQKBWorkID)10738583(PQKB)24860143(MiAaPQ)EBC893844(DE-B1597)122564(OCoLC)853269091(OCoLC)961678278(DE-B1597)9783110247732(Au-PeEL)EBL893844(CaPaEBR)ebr10606468(CaONFJC)MIL394000(EXLCZ)99267000000027937320120120d2012 uy 0engur|n|---|||||txtccrTheodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos[electronic resource] David Koigen's contribution to the sociology of religion /Martina UrbanBerlin ;Boston Walter de Gruyterc20121 online resource (280 p.)Studia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums,0585-5306 ;Bd. 63Description based upon print version of record.3-11-916569-7 3-11-024772-0 Includes bibliographical references and indexes.Theodicy of culture and the theory of the cultural act -- Beyond the a priori: toward a religion of intimacy -- Resituating Judaism: on pragmatism and phenomenology -- Ethos: a non-essentialist perspective on religion and ethnicity -- Epilogue: towards a sociology of Jewish religious knowledge.This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms the religion of reason into an ethical Intimitätsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual currents, among them, Max Scheler's philosophy of values, the historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of Émile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical strands into an original argument which unfolds along two trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a group's sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and corporate liability. Although the normative content of the covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of European sociology. Studia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;Bd. 63.Religion and sociologyJewish philosophyJudaismPhilosophyJudaismSocial aspectsElectronic books.Religion and sociology.Jewish philosophy.JudaismPhilosophy.JudaismSocial aspects.306.6/96Urban Martina919313MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910463330203321Theodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos2461233UNINA