Jewish religious and philosophical ethics / edited by Curtis Hutt, Halla Kim and Berel Dov Lerner.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hutt, Curtis, editor.

Kim, Halla, 1964- editor.

Lerner, Berel Dov, 1958- editor.

Series:

Routledge Jewish studies series.

Routledge Jewish Studies Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish ethics--Philosophy.

Jewish ethics.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 pages).

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Routledge, [2018]

Summary:

"Twentieth century continental thinkers such as Bergson, Levinas and Jonas have brought fresh and renewed attentions to Jewish ethics, yet it still remains fairly low profile in the Anglophone academic world. This collection of critical essays brings together the work of established and up-and-coming scholars from Israel, the United States, and around the world on the topic of Jewish religious and philosophical ethics. The chapters are broken into three main sections - Rabbinics, Philosophy, and Contemporary Challenges. The authors address, using a variety of research strategies, the work of both major and lesser-known figures in historical Jewish religious and philosophical traditions. The book discusses a wide variety of topics related to Jewish ethics, including "ethics and the Mishnah," "Afro Jewish ethics," "Jewish historiographical ethics," as well as the conceptual/philosophical foundations of the law and virtues in the work of Martin Buber, Hermann Cohen, and Baruch Spinoza.The volume closes with four contributions on present-day frontiers in Jewish ethics. As the first book to focus on the nature, scope and ramifications of the Jewish ethics at work in religious and philosophical contexts, this book will be of great interest to anyone studying Jewish Studies, Philosophy and Religion"-- Provided by publisher.

Contents:

chapter Introduction

part PART I Rabbinics

chapter 1 Angels vs. humans in the moral psychology of R. Meir Simhah Ha-Kohen of Dvinsk / BEREL DOV LERNER

chapter 2 Angels, humans, and the struggle for moral excellence in the writings of Meir Simhah of Dvinsk and Simhah Zissel of Kelm / GEOFFREY CLAUSSEN

chapter 3 Wise hukkim and the Byzantine sermonic ideology of a Divine fi at ELISHA S. ANCSELOVITS

part PART II Philosophy

chapter 4 Is Maimonides a moral relativist? / LENN E. GOODMAN

chapter 5 Spinoza’s baffl ing view of biblical morality / MICHAH GOTTLIEB

chapter 6 Hermann Cohen on the concept of law in ethics / HALLA KIM

chapter 7 Expressions of caring: relational virtues in Buber’s ethics / LAURA GRAMS

chapter 8 Cosmopolitan tolerance and asymmetrical ethics: Adorno, Levinas, derrida / Adorno, Levinas, derrida ERIC S. NELSON

part PART III Contemporary challenges

chapter 9 Textual morality: on the neglect of ritual in applied Jewish ethics / ARI SCHICK

chapter 10 A critical reading of American liberal Jewish engagement with the Israeli-Palestinian confl ict / YAKIR ENGLANder

chapter 11 Afro-Jewish ethics? / LEWIS R. GORDON

chapter 12 Jewish history and memory: historiographical ethics after Yerushalmi’s Zakhor / CURTIS HUTT.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

1-315-38572-4

1-315-38574-0

1-315-38573-2

9781315385747

OCLC:

1002202374