UID:
edocfu_9959229201502883
Format:
1 online resource (470 p.)
ISBN:
1-61811-359-3
Series Statement:
Emunot: Jewish Philosophy and Kabbalah
Content:
The Angel of Jewish History casts a philosophical gaze upon the relationship between the traditional Jewish past and the present through the metaphysical worldviews of five formative Jewish studies scholars: Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi, Amos Funkenstein, Gershom Scholem, Baruch Kurzweil, and Nathan Rotenstreich. Their hermeneutic worldviews and writings deal with the nature and formation of modern Judaism, the Wissenschaft des Judentums, historicism, the image of the Jewish past and tradition, secularization, and God's status in present-day Jewish reality. In this volume, these issues are explored against the background of the tense discourse between the perception of modern Jewish reality as a break from the past and tradition and the argument for continuity despite the changes and developments of modernity.
Note:
Includes index.
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Frontmatter --
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Table of Contents --
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Acknowledgments /
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Part One. Yosef Hayim Yerushalmi and Amos Funkenstein: Transcendence, Immanence, and Jewish History in an Era of Secularization --
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Part Two. Gershom Scholem: History, Continuity, and Secret --
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Part Three. Baruch Kurzweil: Break, Poetics, and Continuity --
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Part Four. Nathan Rotenstreich: Philosophy, History, and Reality --
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Epilogue: The Old Angel --
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Works Cited --
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Index
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English
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-61811-348-8
Additional Edition:
ISBN 1-306-57197-9
Language:
English
DOI:
10.1515/9781618113597
