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The Impossible Community: Privative Judgements in Blanchot, Levinas and Nancy [PDF]
The central aim of this collection is to trace the presence of Jewish tradition In Contemporary philosophy. This presence is, on the one hand, undeniable, manifesting itself In manifold allusions and influences - on the other hand, difficult to define ...
Large, William
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Jewish Religious and Philosophic Thought through the Lens of Analytical Philosophy
The reviewed Jewish Philosophy in an Analytic Age is a unique collection of essays that combine analytical philosophy to the Jewish religion. Analytical approach has been widely applied to Christianity since the 1980s and marked the legitimization of ...
V. V. Sleptsova
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The Non-Violent Liberation Theologies of Abraham Joshua Heschel and Mahatma Gandhi
This article explores how Gandhi and Heschel developed a liberation theology that was rooted in their religious praxis, which implied an active, non-violent struggle for the rights of the oppressed.
Ephraim Meir
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Gandhi and Buber on Individual and Collective Transformation
A virtual encounter between Buber and Gandhi articulates where they differ and where they touch common ground. They developed a transformative thinking that opened up the individual and collective ego to others.
Ephraim Meir
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This short essay takes an exploratory approach to redefining Jewish theology. I will offer a brief reflection on both possible philosophical—through the concepts of participation, truth, and textuality—and theological—around the categories of philosophy ...
Lucas Oro Hershtein
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Heidegger as Levinas’s Guide to Judaism beyond Philosophy
This essay reflects on the way that Emmanuel Levinas stages the difference between Judaism and Philosophy, namely how he approaches Jewish thought as a concrete other of philosophy. The claim is that this mise en scène underlies Levinas’s oeuvre not only
Elad Lapidot
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Much has been written about the theological, cultural, and social foundations of the Zionist movement and its historical development. While scholars have discussed the immigration of the first Hasidim to the Land of Israel in the late eighteenth century,
Leore Sachs-Shmueli
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Moses Mendelssohn as an Influence on Hermann Cohen’s “Idiosyncratic” Reading of Maimonides’ Ethics
Surprisingly, there are at least three major theological subjects where Hermann Cohen seems to agree with Mendelssohn—against standard Jewish Reform theology. Even more interesting: All three points stand in connection with the religious thought of Moses
George Y. Kohler
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Oneness and Mending the World in Arthur Green’s Neo-Hasidism
This article describes and discusses Green’s mystical neo-Hasidic thought, his reshaping of Judaism and his combination of scholarship and existential engagement.
Ephraim Meir
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What is Jewish in Jewish philosophy?
The aim of this article is to explore understandings of Jewish philosophy. According to Daniel H. Frank, Jewish philosophy is an academic discipline invented in the nineteenth century by scholars intent on gaining a foothold of academic respectability ...
Karl-Johan Illman
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