Encountering the medieval in modern Jewish thought [electronic resource] / edited by James A. Diamond and Aaron W. Hughes.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Diamond, James Arthur.

Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-

Series:

Supplements to The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 17.

Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 17

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Judaism--History--Medieval and early modern period, 425-1789.

Judaism.

Judaism--History--Modern period, 1750-.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Philosophy, Modern.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (345 p.)

Place of Publication:

Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2012.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

The term “medieval” performs a great deal more intellectual work in modern Jewish Thought than simply acting as a referent to a particular historical era. During the nineteenth century, often for Jews who were increasingly alienated from their own tradition, the “medieval” functioned primarily as a bearer of identity in a rapidly changing and secular world. Each chapter in Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought addresses a different return to the medieval, ranging from the Enlightenment to the contemporary period, that clothed itself in the language of renewal and of retrieval. The volume engages the full complexity and range of meaning the term “medieval” carries for modern Jewish Thought.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Introduction Encountering the Medieval in Modern Jewish Thought / James A. Diamond and Aaron W. Hughes

Chapter One “Medieval” and the Politics of Nostalgia: Ideology, Scholarship, and the Creation of the Rational Jew / Aaron W. Hughes

Chapter Two On the Possibility of a Hidden Christian Will: Methodological Pitfalls in the Study of Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Sarah Pessin

Chapter Three Lessing in Jerusalem: Modern Religion, Medieval Orientalism, and the Idea of Perfection / Zachary Braiterman

Chapter Four R. Abraham Isaac Kook and Maimonides: A Contemporary Mystic’s Embrace of Medieval Rationalism / James A. Diamond

Chapter Five On Myth, History, and the Study of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem / Claire E. Sufrin

Chapter Six What S. Y. Agnon Taught Gershom Scholem About Jewish History / Kenneth Hart Green

Chapter Seven Constructed and Denied: “The Talmud” from the Brisker Rav to the Mishneh Torah / Sergey Dolgopolski

Chapter Eight Escaping the Scholastic Paradigm: The Dispute Between Strauss and His Contemporaries About How to Approach Islamic and Jewish Medieval Philosophy / Joshua Parens

Chapter Nine Justifying Philosophy and Restoring Revelation: Assessing Strauss’s Medieval Return / Randi L. Rashkover

Chapter Ten Echo of the Otherwise: Ethics of Transcendence and the Lure of Theolatry / Elliot R. Wolfson

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Includes index.

ISBN:

1-283-55132-2

9786613863775

90-04-23406-3

OCLC:

808441796

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004234062 DOI