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  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

    by Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal ... Read more

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  • Arguments Against the Christian Religion in Amsterdam by Saul Levi Morteira, Spinoza's Rabbi

    by Gregory Kaplan ...
    Series series Amsterdam Studies in the Dutch Golden Age
    This is the first book to offer a translation into English-as well as a critical study-of a Spanish treatise written around 1650 by Rabbi Saul Levi Morteira, whose most renowned congregant was Baruch Spinoza. Aimed at encouraging the practice of halachic Judaism among the Amsterdam-based descendants of conversos, Spanish and Portuguese Sephardic Jews who had been forced to convert to Christianity, ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Disciplining Freud on Religion

    Perspectives from the Humanities and Sciences

    by Jacob Belzen, Kelly Bulkeley, Michael Carroll, Jean-Joseph Goux, Diane Jonte-Pace, Gregory Kaplan, William B. Parsons, Bettina Bergo ...
    It is well known that in formulating his general theoretical framework and views on religion Freud drew on multiple disciplines within the natural and social sciences, as well as from the humanities. This edited collection adds to the continued multidisciplinary interest in Freud by focusing on his understanding and interpretation of and relationship to religion. It 'disciplines' Freud by ... Read more

    $105.99 USD

  • Thinking Jewish Culture in America

    by Noam Pianko, Akiba Lerner, Gregory Kaplan, Ken Koltun-Fromm, Claire E. Sufrin, Jessica Rosenberg, Einat Ramon, Leonard Kaplan, Ari Y. Kelman, Mara H. Benjamin0, Arnold M. Eisen1 ...
    Series series Graven Images
    Thinking Jewish Culture in America argues that Jewish thought extends our awareness and deepens the complexity of American Jewish culture. This volume stretches the disciplinary boundaries of Jewish thought so that it can productively engage expanding arenas of culture by drawing Jewish thought into the orbit of cultural studies. The eleven contributors to Thinking Jewish Cultures, together with ... Read more

    $129.59 USD

  • The Weimar Moment

    Liberalism, Political Theology, and Law

    by Rodrigo Chacón, Robert Gibbs, Udi Greenberg, Jeffrey C. Herf, Michael Hollerich, Gregory Kaplan, Michael McGillen, David Novak, Carl J. Rasmussen, Ulrich Rosenhagen, Klaus Tanner, Azzan Yadin-Israel, Samuel Moyn, Peter C. Caldwell, Michael W. Jennings, Gary Dorrien, Christophe Chalamet, Peter E. Gordon, John P. McCormick, Gabriel R. Ricci ...
    Series series Graven Images
    The Weimar Moment’s evocative assault on closure and political reaction, its offering of democracy against the politics of narrow self-interest cloaked in nationalist appeals to Volk and “community”—or, as would be the case in Nazi Germany, “race”—cannot but appeal to us today. This appeal—its historical grounding and content, its complexities and tensions, its variegated expressions across the ... Read more

    $161.99 USD

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  • Religion, Redemption and Revolution

    The New Speech Thinking Revolution of Franz Rozenzweig and Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy

    by Wayne Cristaudo ...
    Religion, Redemption, and Revolution closely examines the intertwined intellectual development of one of the most important Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, Franz Rosenzweig, and his friend and teacher, Christian sociologist Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy. The first major English work on Rosenstock-Huessy, it also provides a significant reinterpretation of Rosenzweig's writings based on the ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides

    by Kenneth Hart Green ...
    In Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides, Kenneth Hart Green explores the critical role played by Maimonides in shaping Leo Strauss's thought. In uncovering the esoteric tradition employed in Maimonides's Guide of the Perplexed, Strauss made the radical realization that other ancient and medieval philosophers might be concealing their true thoughts through literary artifice. Maimonides and ... Read more

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  • The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy

    Edited by Michael L. Morgan, Peter Eli Gordon ...
    Series series Cambridge Companions to Religion
    Modern Jewish philosophy emerged in the seventeenth century, with the impact of the new science and modern philosophy on thinkers who were reflecting upon the nature of Judaism and Jewish life. This collection of essays examines the work of several of the most important of these figures, from the seventeenth to the late-twentieth centuries, and addresses themes central to the tradition of modern ... Read more

    $36.09 USD

  • The Legacy of Liberal Judaism

    Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt's Hidden Conversation

    by Ned Curthoys ...
    Comparing the liberal Jewish ethics of the German-Jewish philosophers Ernst Cassirer and Hannah Arendt, this book argues that both espoused a diasporic, worldly conception of Jewish identity that was anchored in a pluralist and politically engaged interpretation of Jewish history and an abiding interest in the complex lived reality of modern Jews. Arendt’s indebtedness to liberal Jewish thinkers ... Read more

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  • Rosenzweig's Bible

    Reinventing Scripture for Jewish Modernity

    by Mara H. Benjamin, PhD ...
    Rosenzweig's Bible examines the high stakes, both theological and political, of Franz Rosenzweig's attempt to revivify the Hebrew Bible and use it as the basis for a Jewish textual identity. Mara Benjamin's innovative reading of The Star of Redemption places Rosenzweig's best-known work at the beginning of an intellectual trajectory that culminated in a monumental translation of the Bible, thus ... Read more

    $43.49 USD

  • Neighboring Faiths

    Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in the Middle Ages and Today

    by David Nirenberg ...
    Essays on how Jews, Muslims, and Christians have coexisted—or not—over the centuries, from "a particularly incisive and trustworthy historian of religion" ( Commonweal).Christianity, Judaism, and Islam are usually treated as autonomous religions, but in fact across the long course of their histories the three religions have developed in interaction with one another. In Neighboring Faiths, David ... Read more

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  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    by Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... Read more

    $13.99 USD