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  • Thunder in the Soul

    To Be Known By God

    by Abraham Joshua Heschel ...
    Series series Plough Spiritual Guides
    Like the Hebrew prophets before him, the great American rabbi and civil rights leader reveals God’s concern for this world and each of us.Abraham Joshua Heschel, descended from a long line of Orthodox rabbis, fled Europe to escape the Nazis. He made the insights of traditional Jewish spirituality come alive for American Jews while speaking out boldly against war and racial injustice.Heschel ... Read more

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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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  • Judaism and the West

    From Hermann Cohen to Joseph Soloveitchik

    by Robert Erlewine ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    Grappling with the place of Jewish philosophy at the margin of religious studies, Robert Erlewine examines the work of five Jewish philosophers—Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, Abraham Joshua Heschel, and Joseph Soloveitchik—to bring them into dialogue within the discipline. Emphasizing the tenuous place of Jews in European, and particularly German, culture, Erlewine unapologetically ... Read more

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

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    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

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  • Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life

    Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    An "engagingly personal" exploration of Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, and the relationship between philosophy and religion ( Times Literary Supplement).In this book, distinguished philosopher and practicing Jew Hilary Putnam questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical ... Read more

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

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  • (God) After Auschwitz

    Tradition and Change in Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought

    by Zachary Braiterman ...
    The impact of technology-enhanced mass death in the twentieth century, argues Zachary Braiterman, has profoundly affected the future shape of religious thought. In his provocative book, the author shows how key Jewish theologians faced the memory of Auschwitz by rejecting traditional theodicy, abandoning any attempt to justify and vindicate the relationship between God and catastrophic suffering. ... Read more

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  • 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 ...
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    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

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  • In The Shadow of Mount Sinai

    by Peter Sloterdijk ...
    In this short book Peter Sloterdijk clarifies his views on religion and its role in pre-modern and modern societies. He begins by returning to the Mount Sinai episode in the Book of Exodus, where he identifies the emergence of what he calls the �Sinai Schema�. At the core of monotheism is the logic of belonging to a community of confession, of being a true believer - this is what Sloterdijk calls ... Read more

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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

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  • Not in the Heavens

    The Tradition of Jewish Secular Thought

    by David Biale ...
    The story of the origins and development of a Jewish form of secularismNot in the Heavens traces the rise of Jewish secularism through the visionary writers and thinkers who led its development. Spanning the rich history of Judaism from the Bible to today, David Biale shows how the secular tradition these visionaries created is a uniquely Jewish one, and how the emergence of Jewish secularism was ... Read more

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  • 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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