Out of Control

Richard A Cohen

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion. After the end of superstitious religio... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Optimism

Steven S Schwarzschild

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Complete collection of Schwarzschild's essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen. Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924-1989) was arguably th... Lees meer

Radical Assimilation in the Face of the Holocaust

Tom Navon

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• An intellectual-political biography of Otto Heller, the most prominent and prolific communist theoretician of the Jewish question. Lees meer

Jewish Virtue Ethics

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Explores the diversity of Jewish approaches to character and virtue, from the Bible to the present day. What is good character? What are the traits of... Lees meer

The Tragedy of Optimism

Steven S Schwarzschild

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Complete collection of Schwarzschild's essays on the neo-Kantian Jewish philosopher Hermann Cohen. Steven S. Schwarzschild (1924-1989) was arguably th... Lees meer

The Philosopher as Witness

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience. Emil Fackenheim (... Lees meer

The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah

Shmuel Trigano

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Is the Shoah a unique event or just one of the many genocides that have occurred (and continue to occur) in modern history? In The Democratic Ideal an... Lees meer

Other Others

Steven Shankman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other." In literary and cultural studies today, th... Lees meer

Philosophy and Kabbalah

Alessandro Guetta

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Philosophy and Kabbalah offers an analysis of the life and work of Elijah Benamozegh (1823-1900), an Italian Kabbalist and philosopher of Moroccan ori... Lees meer

The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable

David Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil. Many books focus on issues of Holoca... Lees meer

Out of Control

Richard A Cohen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion. After the end of superstitious religio... Lees meer

Sharing the Burden

Geoffrey D Claussen

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics. Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the ninet... Lees meer

Sharing the Burden

Geoffrey D Claussen

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Examines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics. Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the ninet... Lees meer

Critiques of Theology

Yotam Hotam

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Argues that the modern practice of critique emerged out of religious traditions and can in many ways be traced back to them. It seems hard to imagine ... Lees meer

The Philosopher as Witness

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience. Emil Fackenheim (... Lees meer

Portraits

David Patterson

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Explores Elie Wiesel's portraits of the sages of Judaism and elaborates on the Hasidic legacy from his life and his teaching. Lees meer

Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writi... Lees meer

Hasidism, Suffering, and Renewal

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Reconsiders the legacy of an important Hasidic mystic, leader, and educator who confronted the dilemmas of modernity after World War I and whose writi... Lees meer

The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable

David Patterson

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Argues that Holocaust representation has ethical implications fundamentally linked to questions of good and evil. Many books focus on issues of Holoca... Lees meer

The Democratic Ideal and the Shoah

Shmuel Trigano

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Shmuel Trigano is Professor of Sociology at the Université of Paris X Nanterre. He is the author of many books, including L'avenir des Juifs de France... Lees meer

Other Others

Steven Shankman

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Looks at literary works from outside the Judeo-Christian tradition to test Levinas's notion of "the Other." In literary and cultural studies today, th... Lees meer

Philosophy and Kabbalah

Alessandro Guetta

• Paperback | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• Alessandro Guetta is Professor of Jewish Thought at the National Institute for Oriental Languages and Civilizations in Paris. Lees meer

Levinas and the Torah

Richard I Sugarman

• Hardcover | Engels | Suny Contemporary Jewish Thought
• A Levinasian commentary on the Torah. The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth ... Lees meer