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Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

[1] 书籍信息

Daniel H. Weiss, Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence, Cambridge University Press, April 2023.

[2] 作者简介

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020). Actively involved in the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, he is a recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

[3] 内容简介

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers – Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin – in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition.

• Provides surprising new readings of four important modern Jewish philosophers

• Enables the reader to see the philosophical potential in classical rabbinic literature and to understand its underlying political orientation in new ways

• Highlights an alternative mode of reason that challenges typical understandings in the dominant Western philosophical tradition

[4] 书籍目录  

Introduction
1. Moses Mendelssohn and the rabbinic suspending of coercive punishment
2. Who can command violence, and who should obey? Mendelssohn on divine sovereignty and the limits of modern Jewish integration
3. Jewishness and the prophetic anarchism of Hermann Cohen
4. Franz Rosenzweig and the Jewish alternative to militarism
5. Walter Benjamin and the antinomianism of classical rabbinic Judaism
Conclusion: no other gods, no other masters.

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https://www.cambridge.org/us/academic/subjects/philosophy/philosophy-general-interest/modern-jewish-philosophy-and-politics-divine-violence?format=HB

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