On personal and public concerns : essays in Jewish philosophy / / Eliezer Schweid ; translated and edited by Leonard Levin ; cover design by Ivan Grave

• Autore: Schweid Eliezer
• Pubblicazione: Brighton, [Massachusetts] : , : Academic Studies Press, , 2014; ©2014
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (240 p.)
• Disciplina: 181.06
• Soggetto topico: Jewish philosophy
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Persona (resp. second.): LevinLeonard; GraveIvan
• Note generali: Includes index.
• Nota di contenuto: Front matter -- Acknowledgements -- Contents -- Editor's Introduction -- A Personal Viewpoint: Autobiographical Essay My Way in the Research and Teaching of Jewish Thought -- Judaism and the Lonely Jew -- Faith: Its Trusting and Testing - The Question of God's Righteousness -- History in the Postmodern Age -- The Idolatrous Values and Rituals of the Global Village -- Index
• Sommario/riassunto: Eliezer Schweid's career as philosopher, scholar, educator and public intellectual has spanned the history of the State of Israel from the pre-war Yishuv period to the present. In these essays he recalls his formative years in the Zionist youth and the Hebrew University. He reflects on the existential loneliness of the modern Jew. He examines the perennial problem of theodicy through a Jewish lens in its broadest human parameters. Finally, he offers a challenging critique of the postmodern culture of the "global village," in which the marketplace and skepticism have crowded out humane values rooted in the traditions of historical culture.
• Titolo autorizzato: On personal and public concerns
• ISBN: 1-61811-446-8
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910463869303321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II