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The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild / edited by Menachem Kellner.
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Schwarzschild, Steven S.
- Series:
- SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy
- SUNY series in Jewish philosophy
- SUNY series in Jewish Philosophy
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Judaism--Doctrines.
- Judaism.
- Judaism and philosophy.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xii, 394 pages) : illustrations
- Place of Publication:
- Albany : State University of New York Press, c1990.
- Language Note:
- English
- Summary:
- Steven Schwarzschild-rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher-is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking that began with Sa'adia Gaon and reached its highest expression in Maimonides. These thinkers believed that Judaism must confront some systematic view of the universe. Sa'adia did this with Kalam, ibn Gabirol with Neo-Platonism, and Maimonides with Aristotelianism. Schwarzschild does it with Neo-Kantianism. From this confrontation, Schwarzschild derives important insights into the nature and structure of contemporary Judaism and Jewish existence in the post-modern world.Menachem Kellner brings together thirteen of Schwarzschild's Jewish (as opposed to straightforwardly philosophical) writings. Included are important discussions of messianism, death of God theology, ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The common concerns underlying these essays are Neo-Kantian idealism and messianism. In an afterword written especially for this book, Schwarzschild shows that these two foci are really one.In an introductory essay, Menachem Kellner explores the philosophic underpinning of Schwarzschild's non-Marxist socialism, pacifism, and messianism; and of his critiques of Christianity, political conservatism, and Zionism.
- Contents:
- ""Front Matter""; ""Front Cover""; ""Half Title Page""; ""Title Page""; ""Copyright Page""; ""Table Of Contents""; ""Foreword""; ""Acknowledgements""; ""Contents""; ""Introduction""; ""The Personal Messiah-Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine""; ""Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation?""; ""The Lure of Immanence The Crisis in Contemporary Religious Thought""; ""On the Theology of Jewish Survival""; ""A Note on the Nature of Ideal Society A Rabbinic Study*""; ""The Legal Foundation of Jewish Aesthetics""; ""The Question of Jewish Ethics Today""
- ""Moral Radicalism and ""Middlingness"" in the Ethics of Maimonides"" ""Jean-Paul Sartre as Jew*""; ""A Critique of Martin Buber's Political Philosophy An Affectionate Reappraisal""; ""On Jewish Eschatology""; ""Modern Jewish Philosophy*""; ""Shekhinah and Eschatology""; ""Back Matter""; ""Afterword""; ""Notes""; ""Bibliography of the Writings of Steven S. Schwarzschild""; ""Index""
- Notes:
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Includes bibliographical references (p. 379-390) and index.
- ISBN:
- 9781438408682
- 1438408684
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