Berlin’s Savoyard Vicar: Religious Skepticism and Toleration in Mendelssohn and Rousseau
While both Mendelssohn and Rousseau were deeply spiritual thinkers whose writings continually reflect a profound belief in a benevolent God, they both still used religious skepticism in order to undermine the logic of religious intolerance.
Jeremy Fogel
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Religion without God? Approaches to Theological Reference in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Thought
Recent scholarship on both ancient and modern Judaism has criticized the identification of Judaism as a religion. From the perspective of the modern period, what has remained unaddressed is the very peculiar religion that Jewish philosophers and ...
Cass Fisher
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L’amicizia di una vita. Eugenio Garin (1909-2004) e Jacob Leib Teicher (1904-1981)
The philosopher and historian of Italian philosophy, Eugenio Garin, and Jacob Leib Teicher, the Polish Jewish student of Arabic and Jewish philosophy, met as students at the University of Florence, Italy, in the 1920s.
Anna Teicher
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So Near, So Far: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch
The purpose of my article is to shed light on the relationship of proximity and distance that linked two major figures of 20th-century French philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas and Vladimir Jankélévitch.
Joëlle Hansel
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Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig on Torah: Jewish Teaching versus Law
Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig were eminent figures in what Buber called a “Jewish renaissance.” I will limit myself to their relation to two basic Jewish concepts: teaching , i.e., the theoretical, theological part of the tradition, and law , i.e., the ...
Hartwig Wiedebach
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Propheten des Mitleids: Herman Cohens Mitleidsbegriff als Tor zum Stern der Erlösung [PDF]
The German-Jewish philosophers Hermann Cohen and Franz Rosenzweig, have - both in their own ways - produced systems of philosophy at a time that was supposed to be the time after systems.
Palmer Gesine
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Between Naturalism and Theism: Johnston and Putnam on the Reality of God [PDF]
The essay compares mark Johnston’s and Hilary Putnam’s approaches to the philosophy of religion in the framework of Charles Taylor’s claim that in modernity ”intermediate positions’ between theism and naturalism become increasingly attractive for a ...
Schlette, Magnus
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Micro-Yizkor and Hasidic Memory: A Post-Holocaust Letter from the Margins
This paper examines a previously unknown anonymous Hebrew letter inserted into a postwar edition of Shem HaGedolim, found in the library of the Jewish University in Budapest.
Isaac Hershkowitz
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Israeli Literature Trends And Its Philosophy [PDF]
Jewish literature since its beginning has filled up with opinions of Zionist movement. Jewish men of letters have a doped these opinions and that movement stood aside in order not to induce the Jews and to attract them towards Palestine educating the ...
Abdul-Wahab Mohammed AL- juburi
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Philosophy and Kabbalah. Elia Benamozegh (1823–1900), a Progressive/Traditional Thinker
Elia Benamozegh (born—1823 in Livorno and died—1900 in Livorno)—philosopher, biblical exegete, teacher at the Rabbinical College—was an original and fruitful thinker.
Alessandro Guetta
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