New directions in Jewish philosophy / edited by Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-

Wolfson, Elliot R.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

x, 362 pages : illustrations ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2010]

Summary:

Breaking with strictly historical or textual perspectives, this book explores Jewish philosophy as philosophy. Often regarded as too Judaic studies and too religious for philosophy departments, Jewish philosophy has had an ambiguous position in the academy. These provocative essays propose new models for the study of Jewish philosophy that embrace wider intellectual arenas-including linguistics, poetics, aesthetics, and visual culture-as a path toward understanding the particular philosophic concerns of Judaism. As they reread classic Jewish texts, the essays articulate a new set of questions and demonstrate the vitality and originality of Jewish philosophy.

Contents:

Introduction: charting an alternative course for the study of Jewish philosophy / Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson

Screening the canon: Levinas and medieval Jewish philosophy / Martin Kavka

Precursorship and the forgetting of history: Franz Rosenzweig and Saadya Gaon on the memory of translation / Aaron W. Hughes

Light does not talk but shines: apophasis and vision in Rosenzweig's theopoetic temporality / Elliot R. Wolfson

Textual body landscapes and the artist's geometry of Talmud: atelier-work with the materiality of scripture / Almut Sh. Bruckstein

Construction of animals in medieval Jewish philosophy / Kalman P. Bland

Sharing secrets: inter-confessional philosophy as dialogical practice / Steven M. Wasserstrom

Ethical-political universality out of the sources of Judaism: reading Hermann Cohen's 1888 affidavit in and out of context / Dana Hollander

What is the sophist? Who is the rabbi? / Sergey Dolgopolski

Forging a new righteous nation: Maimonides' midrashic interweave of verse and text / James A. Diamond

Aesthetics and the infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the poetics of biblical prophecy / Michah Gottlieb.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780253300317

0253300312

9780253221643

0253221641

OCLC:

313659186