The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought

The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought
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Publisher : Fordham Univ Press
Total Pages : 280
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ISBN-10 : 9780823266203
ISBN-13 : 0823266206
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Book Synopsis The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought by : Willi Goetschel

Download or read book The Discipline of Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought written by Willi Goetschel and published by Fordham Univ Press. This book was released on 2015-06-01 with total page 280 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are those in which specific concerns of their “Jewish questions” inform the rethinking of philosophy’s disciplinarity in principal terms. The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just “Jewish philosophy” from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from its false claims to universalism.


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