Author: Menaḥem G. GlenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musar movement
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
Israel Salanter, Religious-ethical Thinker
Author: Menaḥem G. GlenPublisher:
ISBN:
Category : Musar movement
Languages : en
Pages : 244
Book Description
An Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers
Author: Alan T. LevensonPublisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers
ISBN: 1461636531
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 252
Book Description
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion, the author addresses a range of issues, including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa? Each chapter includes a short, judiciously chosen selection from the given author, along with questions to guide the reader through the material. Short biographical essays at the end of each chapter offer the reader recommendations for further readings and provide the low-down on which books are worth the reader's while. Introduction to Modern Jewish Thinkers represents a decade of the author's experience teaching students ranging from undergraduate age to their seventies. This is an ideal textbook for undergraduate classes.
A Psychoanalytic History of the Jews
Author: Avner FalkPublisher: Fairleigh Dickinson Univ Press
ISBN: 9780838636602
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 868
Book Description
This includes the evolution of the Hebrew religion as a projective response to the inner conflicts produced by the human family; the sociopsychological development of the Israelite kingdoms in Canaan; the fascinating duality of Jewish life in the "Diaspora"; and the emotional ties of the Jews to their idealized motherland from the Babylonian exile to modern political Zionism.
Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy
Author: Richard A. CohenPublisher: Cambridge University Press
ISBN: 1139428837
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 371
Book Description
The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906–96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.
A History of the Jewish People
Author: Abraham MalamatPublisher: Harvard University Press
ISBN: 9780674397316
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 1236
Book Description
First published in Hebrew in Tel Aviv in 1969. First English translation by Weidenfeld and Nicholson in 1976.
Jewish Virtue Ethics
Author: Geoffrey D. ClaussenPublisher: State University of New York Press
ISBN: 1438493924
Category : Religion
Languages : en
Pages : 427
Book Description
What is good character? What are the traits of a good person? How should virtues be cultivated? How should vices be avoided? The history of Jewish literature is filled with reflection on questions of character and virtue such as these, reflecting a wide range of contexts and influences. Beginning with the Bible and culminating with twenty-first-century feminism and environmentalism, Jewish Virtue Ethics explores thirty-five influential Jewish approaches to character and virtue. Virtue ethics has been a burgeoning field of moral inquiry among academic philosophers in the postwar period. Although Jewish ethics has also flourished as an academic (and practical) field, attention to the role of virtue in Jewish thought has been underdeveloped. This volume seeks to illuminate its centrality not only for readers primarily interested in Jewish ethics but also for readers who take other approaches to virtue ethics, including within the Western virtue ethics tradition. The original essays written for this volume provide valuable sources for philosophical reflection.
Bagnowka
Author: Heidi M. SzpekPublisher: iUniverse
ISBN: 1532001541
Category : History
Languages : en
Pages : 404
Book Description
In the last decade of the nineteenth century, a traditional Jewish cemetery was established in the small town of Bagnowka, located near the urban center of Bialystok in current northeastern Poland. Though governed then by Tsarist Russia, Bialystok was still inspired by the teachings of the Torah, the Talmud, and the greater rabbinic community. Yet this was also a time of societal upheaval as a wave of modernity swept over Eastern Europe, bringing with it religious diversity, revolution, and a more secular way of life that would also impact the structure and material culture of this cemetery. Bagnowka: A Modern Jewish Cemetery on the Russian Pale tells the story of this cemetery from its founding in 1892 to its devastation during and after the Holocaust, as well as its recent restoration-in-progress. Drawing on Bagnowkas epitaphs and tombstone art, archival records, period newspapers, photographs, and more, Heidi M. Szpek reveals how this cemetery serves as a reflection of a once traditional Jewish world impacted by modernity.
The Jewish Quarterly Review
Author: Cyrus AdlerHuman Rights and the World's Major Religions
Author: Peter J. HaasPublisher:
ISBN: 9780275980474
Category : Human rights
Languages : en
Pages : 330
Book Description
Author: André Robert