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

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022, author.

Contributor:

Levin, Leonard, translator, editor.

Grave, Ivan, cover designer.

Series:

Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (240 p.)

Place of Publication:

Brighton, [Massachusetts] : Academic Studies Press, 2014.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

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.

Contents:

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

Notes:

Includes index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed January 16, 2015).

ISBN:

1-61811-446-8

OCLC:

900710221