LEADER 04551nam 22007094a 450 001 9910816905303321 005 20240927195049.0 010 $a1-4008-0039-0 010 $a1-4008-0038-2 010 $a1-282-76701-1 010 $a9786612767012 010 $a1-4008-2358-7 010 $a1-4008-1093-0 024 7 $a10.1515/9781400823581 035 $a(CKB)111056486504616 035 $a(EBL)581560 035 $a(OCoLC)700688428 035 $a(SSID)ssj0000176201 035 $a(PQKBManifestationID)11170128 035 $a(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000176201 035 $a(PQKBWorkID)10205837 035 $a(PQKB)11284505 035 $a(OCoLC)51328469 035 $a(MdBmJHUP)muse36075 035 $a(DE-B1597)446167 035 $a(OCoLC)979628986 035 $a(DE-B1597)9781400823581 035 $a(Au-PeEL)EBL581560 035 $a(CaPaEBR)ebr10035759 035 $a(CaONFJC)MIL276701 035 $a(MiAaPQ)EBC581560 035 $a(EXLCZ)99111056486504616 100 $a19990809d2000 uy 0 101 0 $aeng 135 $aurnn#---|u||u 181 $ctxt$2rdacontent 182 $cc$2rdamedia 183 $acr$2rdacarrier 200 10$aIdolatry and representation $ethe philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig reconsidered /$fLoora Batnitzky 205 $aCourse Book 210 $aPriceton, N.J. $cPrinceton University Press$d2000 215 $a1 online resource (viii, 281 pages) 311 $a0-691-14427-3 311 $a0-691-04850-9 320 $aIncludes bibliographical references (p. [227]-272) and index. 327 $tFront matter --$tContents --$tAcknowledgments --$tIntroduction. Reconsidering Rosenzweig and Modern Conceptions of Idolatry --$tPA RT I : ETHICS AND MONOTHEISM --$tOne. The Eradication of Alien Worship: Rosenzweig as Ethical Monotheist --$tTwo. Miracles and Martyrs, Ethics and Hermeneutics: Idolatry from Mendelssohn to Rosenzweig --$tThree. The Philosophical Import of Carnal Israel: Hermeneutics and the Structure of Rosenzweig's The Star of Redemption --$tPART II : ART AND LANGUAGE --$tFour Risky Images: Rosenzweig's Aesthetic Theory and Jewish Uncanniness --$tFive The Problem of Translation: Risking the Present for the Sake of the Past --$tPART III: RELIGIONAND POLITICS --$tSix. Risking Religion: Christian Idolatry --$tSeven. Risking Politics: Jewish Idolatry --$tEight. After Israel: Rosenzweig's Philosophy of Risk Reconsidered --$tConclusion. The Future of Monotheism --$tNotes --$tIndex 330 $aAlthough Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility. Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems. 606 $aJudaism$xDoctrines 606 $aIdolatry 606 $aJewish philosophy 615 0$aJudaism$xDoctrines. 615 0$aIdolatry. 615 0$aJewish philosophy. 676 $a296.3/092 700 $aBatnitzky$b Leora$f1966-$01769505 801 0$bMiAaPQ 801 1$bMiAaPQ 801 2$bMiAaPQ 906 $aBOOK 912 $a9910816905303321 996 $aIdolatry and representation$94240937 997 $aUNINA