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  • A Guide for the Jewish Undecided

    by Lebens, Samuel ...
    What makes a belief or a lifestyle rational? How much evidence do you need before deciding to act on a belief? If your religious beliefs are tightly bound up with your particular experiences and upbringing, doesn’t that undermine their reliability? All these questions, and more, come to the fore in Samuel Lebens’ A Guide for the Jewish Undecided. Bringing cutting-edge philosophy, science, ... Read more

    $9.99 USD

  • God's Chosen People

    Judaism's Most Divisive Doctrine

    by Samuel Lebens ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
    At the heart of the Jewish religion is a doctrine that has proven to be deeply divisive. It claims that the Jewish people have a special relationship with God, that they have been chosen. This teaching has divided Jews and gentiles because it seems to imply a Jewish supremacism. Even within the Jewish world, thinkers have disagreed about its meaning and value. Some Jewish communities have rejected ... Read more

    $148.49 USD

  • The Philosophy of Worship

    Divine and Human Aspects

    Edited by Aaron Segal, Samuel Lebens ...
    Worship is central to the lives of billions of people worldwide. Yet, despite the recent flourishing of analytical philosophy of religion, there has been very little attention paid to the philosophical questions raised by worship. This book is the first volume to explore the philosophy of worship. Written in a clear style that eschews unnecessary technical jargon, it considers the metaphysical, ... Read more

    $110.69 USD

  • The Principles of Judaism

    by Samuel Lebens ...
    Series series Oxford Studies in Analytic Theology
    Samuel Lebens takes the three principles of Jewish faith, as proposed by Rabbi Joseph Albo (1380-1444), in order to scrutinize and refine them with the toolkit of contemporary analytic philosophy. What could it mean for a perfect being to create a world from nothing? Could our world be anything more than a figment of God's imagination? What is the Torah? What does Judaism expect from a Messiah, ... Read more

    $93.59 USD

  • Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions

    A History and Defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement

    by Samuel Lebens ...
    Series series Routledge Studies in Twentieth-Century Philosophy
    Bertrand Russell and the Nature of Propositions offers the first book-length defence of the Multiple Relation Theory of Judgement (MRTJ). Although the theory was much maligned by Wittgenstein and ultimately rejected by Russell himself, Lebens shows that it provides a rich and insightful way to understand the nature of propositional content.In Part I, Lebens charts the trajectory of Russell’s ... Read more

    $61.99 USD

  • Thinking about Stories

    An Introduction to Philosophy of Fiction

    by Samuel Lebens, Tatjana von Solodkoff ...
    Thinking About Stories is a fun and thought-provoking introduction to philosophical questions about narrative fiction in its many forms, from highbrow literature to pulp fiction to the latest shows on Netflix.Written by philosophers Samuel Lebens and Tatjana von Solodkoff, it engages with fundamental questions about fiction, such as: What is it? What does it give us? Does a story need a narrator? ... Read more

    $52.99 USD

  • Philosophy of Religion: The Basics

    by Samuel Lebens ...
    Series series The Basics
    This book introduces students and other interested readers to the philosophy of religion—a vibrant and growing field of academic philosophy. Readers will be guided through an exploration of classic and contemporary arguments for and against theism. In addition to this crucial, but standard fare, this book looks to probe deeper into the nature and value (or dis-value) of religion itself. Philosophy ... Read more

    $33.99 USD

  • Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age

    Edited by Samuel Lebens, Dani Rabinowitz, Aaron Segal ...
    Since the classical period, Jewish scholars have drawn on developments in philosophy to enrich our understanding of Judaism. This methodology reached its pinnacle in the medieval period with figures like Maimonides and continued into the modern period with the likes of Rosenzweig. The explosion of Anglo-American/analytic philosophy in the twentieth century means that there is now a host of ... Read more

    $105.29 USD

  • Negative Theology as Jewish Modernity

    by Michael Fagenblat, Agata Bielik-Robson, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Lenn E. Goodman, James Jacobson-Maisels, Martin Kavka, Samuel Lebens, Adam Lipszyc, David Novak, Sarah Pessin0, Kenneth Seeskin1, David Shatz2, Sandra Valabregue-Perry3, Tzahi Weiss4, Elliot R. Wolfson5, Shiva Wolosky6 ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    Negative theology is the attempt to describe God by speaking in terms of what God is not. Historical affinities between Jewish modernity and negative theology indicate new directions for thematizing the modern Jewish experience. Questions such as, What are the limits of Jewish modernity in terms of negativity? Has this creative tradition exhausted itself? and How might Jewish thought go forward? ... Read more

    $9.99 USD