The discipline of philosophy and the invention of modern Jewish thought / Willi Goetschel.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Goetschel, Willi, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy--History.

Jewish philosophy.

History.

Physical Description:

x, 270 pages ; 25 cm

Place of Publication:

New York : Fordham University Press, 2013.

Contents:

1 Introduction: Disciplining Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought 1

2 Hellenes, Nazarenes, and Other Jews: Heine the Fool 21

3 Jewish Philosophy? The Discourse of a Project 39

4 Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig 58

5 A House of One's Own? University, Particularity, and the Jewish House of Learning 83

6 Jewish Thought in the Wake of Auschwitz: Margarete Susman's The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People 97

7 Contradiction Set Free: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Philosophy out of the Sources of Judaism 114

8 Spinoza's Smart Worm and the Interplay of Ethics, Politics, and Interpretation 133

9 Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment 150

10 State, Sovereignty, and the Outside Within: Mendelssohn's View from the "Jewish Colony" 178

11 Mendelssohn and the State 189

12 "An Experiment of How Coincidence May Produce Unanimity of Thoughts": Enlightenment Trajectories in Kant and Mendelssohn 210.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780823244966

0823244962

OCLC:

792885547