A history of modern Jewish religious philosophy. Volume III, The crisis of humanism, a historical crossroads /
The culmination of Eliezer Schweid's life-work as a Jewish intellectual historian, this five-volume work provides a comprehensive, interdisciplinary account of the major thinkers and movements in modern Jewish thought, in the context of general philosophy and Jewish social-political historical...
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2019
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| Series: | Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ;
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Table of Contents:
- Intro; Contents; Acknowledgements; Abbreviations; Historical and Methodological Introduction; Chapter 1 The Crisis of Humanism in German Philosophy; 1.1 Karl Marx's Historical Materialism; 1.2 Marx on Judaism; 1.3 The School of "Historical Materialism" and Humanism; 1.4 Truth and Ethics Undermined: the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche; 1.5 The Existential Crisis of the Individual from the Perspective of Religion: the Religious Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard; 1.6 Empirical Science in Place of Philosophy: Comte, Darwin, Spencer
- Chapter 2 Defense of Humanism through a Return to the Sources of Judaism in Germany2.1 Introduction; 2.2 Moses Hess: Humanistic Socialism from the Sources of Judaism; 2.3 Moritz Lazarus: Realizing Kant's Ethical Idealism as a Way of Life, According to the Sources of Judaism; Chapter 3 The Philosophical Campaign for Realizing Humanism as a Universal Jewish Mission: the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen; 3.1 The Development of Cohen's Personality and His Method; 3.2 The Mission Expressed in the Renewal of Kant's Idealist Philosophy
- 3.3 Did Cohen's Methodology Change in Order to Accommodate the Discussion of Religion?3.4 Defining the Task of Philosophy in Culture and Its Relation to Its Sources; 3.5 The "Principle of Origin"; 3.6 The Ethics: Law and Justice, Politics and Morality; 3.7 Comparing Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone to Religion of Reason from the Sources of Judaism; 3.8 The Idea of Correlation; 3.9 Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism; 3.10 God's Unity/Uniqueness, and the Problem of Proofs for God's Existence; 3.11 Creation and Revelation
- 3.12 "You Shall Be Holy for I Am Holy" and "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: I Am the Lord"3.14 The Idea of Messiah and the Election of Israel for the Sake of Human History; 3.15 Halakha and Jewish Nationality; 3.16 The Vision of Peace and the Sabbath; Chapter 4 The Doctrine of Jewish Nationalism Based on Positivism: the Teaching of Aḥad Ha-Am; 4.1 The Development of the Personality and Thought of Aḥad Ha-Am(Asher Ginzberg); 4.2 "The Problem of the Jews" and "The Problem of Judaism"; 4.3 The Roots of National Identity; 4.4 Judaism as a National Culture
- 4.5 The Place of the Religious Worldview in Shaping Secular Jewish Culture4.6 Jewish Ethics and Halakha; Chapter 5 The Debate in Eastern Europe on Judaism as a Secular Culture; 5.1 Introduction; 5.2 A National Philosophy of Religion in Religious Zionism: the Thought of Samuel Aleksandrow and Isaac Jacob Reines; 5.3 The Social-Historical Existence of the Jewish People: Simon Dubnow's Theory of the "Spiritual Center"; 5.4 Nietzsche's Influence among the Younger Generation in Modern Hebrew Literature, and Micha Josef Berdyczewski's "Transvaluationof Values."
