Memory of the West : the contemporaneity of forgotton Jewish thinkers / Reyes Mate ; translated from the Spanish by Anne Day Dewey ; edited by John R. Welch.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Mate, Reyes.

Contributor:

Dewey, Anne Day.

Welch, John R.

Series:

Value inquiry book series ; v. 163.

Value inquiry book series. Philosophy in Spain

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 163. Philosophy in Spain

Standardized Title:

Memoria de Occidente. English

Language:

English

Spanish

Subjects (All):

Philosophy, Modern.

Jewish philosophers.

Physical Description:

viii, 206 pages ; 22 cm.

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.

Contents:

1 The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present 15

1 The Death of Reason? 18

A The Postmodern Sensibility 18

B Weber's Introduction to Essays on the Sociology of Religion 20

C Why Reason Is Scientific in the West 25

D The Destiny of Western Rationality 29

E Between Resignation and Nostalgia 31

2 The End of History? 33

3 The Decline of Philosophy? 41

4 Modernity Refers Back to Religion and the Enlightenment. The Crisis of Philosophy, of History, of Reason 51

2 The Jewish Question 55

1 Sacrificium Intellectus 56

A There Is No Reason but Enlightened Reason 59

B Outside History 61

C Assimilation 63

2 Sacrificium Historiae Sive Traditionis 65

3 Sacrificium Essentiae 69

3 The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism 75

1 A Contemporary View of the Crisis of Modernity 75

2 The Jewish Obligation to Think 76

3 Two "Nathans," Each the Product of a Specific Tradition and Rationality 78

A Western Rationality, an Idealist Conception of Philosophy 78

B The Critique of Western Idealism 81

4 A Philosophy of Experience 107

1 To Be Jewish and in History 107

2 From Marginality to Universality 111

3 The Plebeian Morality of the Pariah-People 114

4 The Analytic Affinity between Weber and Rosenzweig 115

5 Toward a New Thought 116

A Experience without Time 117

B Experience with Time 118

6 Two Conceptions of Time 122

7 From Solitude to Life 124

8 Revelation as the De-Sacralization of the World 126

A Revelation Is "Orientation" 126

B Ritual and Political Interpretation of the Revelatory Capability of Language 128

5 Toward an Ethic of Compassion 143

1 The Principle of Compassion 143

A Hermann Cohen's Position 143

B Ethics and Religion 144

C The Discovery of the Individual 146

D Compassion in Modern Philosophy 147

2 Responsibility and Freedom 165

A A Necessary Relation 165

B The Ambiguity of the Term "Responsibility" 166

C The Irruption of the Principle of Responsibility 174

D The Heuristic of Fear 175

E Responsibility: From Project to Task 177.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages [191]-198) and index.

ISBN:

9042018232

OCLC:

57285794