Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jan-2024, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438495934)
This book explores the confrontation of radically assimilated Jews with the violent collapse of their envisioned integration into a cosmopolitan European society, which culminated during the Holocaust. This confrontation is examined through the biogr...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438494371)
It seems hard to imagine a concept more significant to modern thought than critique. Critique involved distancing oneself from religious explanations and theological argumentation and came to represent the essence of secular consciousnesss potential...Lasīt vairāk
Geoffrey D. Claussen, Alexander Green, Alan L. Mittleman
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Aug-2023, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438493923)
Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day.What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438484020)
Kalonymus Kalman Shapira (1889-1943) was a remarkable Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator. He confronted the secularization and dislocation of Polish Jews after World War I, the failure of the traditional educational system, and the devastation of t...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2021, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438483993)
Elie Wiesel identified himself as a Vizhnitzer Hasid, who was above all things a witness to the testimony and teaching of the Jewish tradition at the core of the Hasidic tradition. While he is well known for his testimony on the Holocaust and as a me...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Sep-2019, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438475745)
A Levinasian commentary on the Torah.The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinass religious philosophy. Ri...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 22-May-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438470061)
Many books focus on issues of Holocaust representation, but few address why the Holocaust in particular poses such a representational problem. David Patterson draws from Emmanuel Levinass contention that the Good cannot be represented. He argues tha...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Feb-2018, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438468372)
Complete collection of Schwarzschilds essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen.Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924-1989) was arguably the leading expositor of German-Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen (1842-1918), undertaking a lifelong ef...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 01-Jun-2016, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438461113)
Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinozas answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinass is goodness...Lasīt vairāk
Sērija : SUNY series in Contemporary Jewish Thought
(Izdošanas datums: 15-Sep-2015, EPUB+DRM, Izdevniecība: State University of New York Press, ISBN-13: 9781438458366)
Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics.Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth-century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral...Lasīt vairāk
