Eliezer Schweid [electronic resource] : the responsibility of Jewish philosophy / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Aaron W. Hughes ; translated by Leonard Levin.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-

Hughes, Aaron W., 1968-

Levin, Leonard.

Series:

Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers 1.

Library of contemporary Jewish philosophers, 2213-6010 ; v. 1

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Philosophy, Medieval.

Schweid, Eliezer, 1929-2022--Teachings.

Schweid, Eliezer.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (270 p.)

Place of Publication:

Boston : Brill, 2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

This volume features Eliezer Schweid’s philosophy of Judaism for a secular age. The volume brings together four of Schweid’s most original and influential philosophical essays and an interview with him that together express his fundamental outlook: the faith of a secular Jew, freely choosing loyalty to his or her national culture and drawing on Jewish heritage to inform how to act responsibly toward one’s neighbor, one’s people, the world, and God. The themes span the gamut of Schweid’s life work: the existential loneliness of the modern Jew; Judaism as a culture; faith in light of the Holocaust; and appreciation for secular humanism with awareness of its shortcomings, given the enduring legacy of the Jewish biblical heritage.

Contents:

Preliminary Material

Eliezer Schweid: An Intellectual Portrait / Leonard Levin

Judaism as a Culture / Eliezer Schweid

Faith Confronting the Experiences of Our Age / Eliezer Schweid

Humanism, Globalization, Postmodernism, and the Jewish People / Eliezer Schweid

The Drama of Secular History: The Return to Nature and Exit from the Other Side / Eliezer Schweid

Interview with Eliezer Schweid / Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Leonard Levin

Select Bibliography.

Notes:

Title from PDF title page (viewed on July 26, 2013).

Includes bibliographical references.

ISBN:

90-04-24979-6

OCLC:

854185584

Publisher Number:

10.1163/9789004249790 DOI