LEADER 04571nam 2200781 a 450 001 9910463330203321 005 20200520144314.0 010 $a9786613940001 010 $a3-11-024773-9 010 $a1-283-62755-8 024 7 $a10.1515/9783110247732 035 $a(CKB)2670000000279373 035 $a(EBL)893844 035 $a(OCoLC)811962799 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000777233 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12361175 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000777233 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10754918 035 $a(PQKB)11024593 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000797745 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)12379857 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000797745 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10738583 035 $a(PQKB)24860143 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC893844 035 $a(DE-B1597)122564 035 $a(OCoLC)853269091 035 $a(OCoLC)961678278 035 $a(DE-B1597)9783110247732 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL893844 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10606468 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL394000 035 $a(EXLCZ)992670000000279373 100 $a20120120d2012 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aur|n|---||||| 181 $ctxt 182 $cc 183 $acr 200 10$aTheodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos$b[electronic resource] $eDavid Koigen's contribution to the sociology of religion /$fMartina Urban 210 $aBerlin ;$aBoston $cWalter de Gruyter$dc2012 215 $a1 online resource (280 p.) 225 1 $aStudia Judaica, Forschungen zur Wissenschaft des Judentums,$x0585-5306 ;$vBd. 63 300 $aDescription based upon print version of record. 311 $a3-11-916569-7 311 $a3-11-024772-0 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references and indexes. 327 $aTheodicy 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. 330 $aThis volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933). Heir to Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he transforms the religion of reason into an ethical Intimitätsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual currents, among them, Max Scheler's philosophy of values, the historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of Émile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical strands into an original argument which unfolds along two trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a group's sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and corporate liability. Although the normative content of the covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of European sociology. 410 0$aStudia Judaica (Walter de Gruyter & Co.) ;$vBd. 63. 606 $aReligion and sociology 606 $aJewish philosophy 606 $aJudaism$xPhilosophy 606 $aJudaism$xSocial aspects 608 $aElectronic books. 615 0$aReligion and sociology. 615 0$aJewish philosophy. 615 0$aJudaism$xPhilosophy. 615 0$aJudaism$xSocial aspects. 676 $a306.6/96 700 $aUrban$b Martina$0919313 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910463330203321 996 $aTheodicy of culture and the Jewish ethos$92461233 997 $aUNINA