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Product Identifiers
Publisher
STATE University of New York Press
ISBN-10
0791402207
ISBN-13
9780791402207
eBay Product ID (ePID)
465649
Product Key Features
Number of Pages
394 Pages
Language
English
Publication Name
Pursuit of the Ideal : Jewish Writings of Steven Schwarzschild
Publication Year
1990
Subject
Judaism / Theology, Jewish
Type
Textbook
Subject Area
Religion, History
Series
Suny Series in Jewish Philosophy Ser.
Format
Trade Paperback
Dimensions
Item Height
1.1 in
Item Weight
19.6 Oz
Item Length
9 in
Item Width
6 in
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Scholarly & Professional
LCCN
89-004441
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The
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College Graduate Student
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Yes
Table Of Content
Foreword by Kenneth R. Seeskin Acknowledgements Introduction by Menachem Kellner 1. The Personal Messiah - Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine 2. Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation? (A Passage in Dsipute between Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Hermann Cohen) A Contribution to a Jewish View of Natural Law 3. The Lure of Immanence - The Crisis in Contemporary Religious Thought 4. On the Theology of Jewish Survival 5. A Note on the Nature of Ideal Society - A Rabbinic Study 6. The Legal Foundation of Jewish Aesthetics 7. The Question of Jewish Ethics Today 8. Moral Radicalism and "Middlingness" in the Ethics of Maimonides 9. Jean-Paul Sartre as Jew 10. A Critique of Martin Buber's Political Philosophy - An Affectionate Reappraisal 11. On Jewish Eschatology 12. Modern Jewish Philosophy 13. Shekhinah and Eschatology Afterword Notes Bibliography of the Writings of Steven S. Schwarzschild Index
Synopsis
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., 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.
LC Classification Number
BM601.S39 1990
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