Jewish philosophy in an analytic age / Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, and Aaron Segal.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Lebens, Samuel, editor.

Rabinowitz, Dani, 1979- editor.

Segal, Aaron, 1981- editor.

Series:

Oxford scholarship online.

Oxford scholarship online

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (viii, 342 pages) : illustrations

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Oxford : Oxford University Press, 2019.

Summary:

Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig. The explosion of Anglo-American/analytic philosophy in the 20th century means that there is now a host of material, largely unexplored by Jewish philosophy, with which to explore, analyse, and develop the Jewish tradition. This text features contributions from leading scholars in the field which investigate Jewish texts, traditions, and/or thinkers, in order to showcase what Jewish philosophy can be in an analytic age.

Contents:

Talmudic destiny / Eli Hirsch

Metaphysics out of the sources of the Halakha or a Halakhic metaphysic? / Aaron Segal

A jurisprudential puzzle as old as the Talmud / Jeffrey S. Helmreich

A commentary on a Midrash : metaphors about metaphor / Samuel Lebens

Catharsis and the epistemology of repentance in the Talmud and Jewish law / Dani Rabinowitz

Hume and Maimonides on imaginability and possibility / Mark Steiner

Dispassion, God, and nature : Maimonides and Spinoza / Daniel Frank

Maimonides and his predecessors on dying for God as "sanctification of the name of God" / Josef Stern

The fabric of faith / Howard Wettstein

Should theists eschew theodicies? / David Shatz

A proof of Exodus : Yehuda HaLevy and Jonathan Edwards walk into a bar / Tyron Goldschmidt

Atzmut and Sefirot : a new approach / Joshua Golding

The morality of biblical deception : misleading truths, Geneivat Da'at, and Jacob's deception of Isaac / Shira Weiss

Neither authoritarian nor superfluous : a normative account of Rabbinic authority / Yonatan Y. Brafman

A classical Jewish approach to "the normative question" / Melis Erdur

The good, the bad, and the nonidentity problem / Saul Smilansky

Jewish studies and analytic philosophy of Judaism / Tzvi Novick, Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, Aaron Segal.

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from home page (viewed on July 18, 2019).

This edition also issued in print: 2019.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780191848407

0191848409

9780192539373

019253937X

9780192539380

0192539388