Idolatry and Representation
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Aesthetic Theory
After Virtue
Apologetics
Art for art's sake
Arthur A. Cohen
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Avodah Zarah
Book of Job
Buber
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Christian Identity
Christianity
Christianity and Judaism
Conversion to Judaism
Critical philosophy
Dasein
Divine law
Dogmatic theology
Edmund Husserl
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Ethical monotheism
Eugen Rosenstock-Huessy
Exegesis
False god
Franz Rosenzweig
Friedrich Schleiermacher
God
Good and evil
Hans Ehrenberg
Haskalah
Hermann Cohen
Hermeneutics
Historicism
Iconoclasm
Idealism
Idolatry
Image of God
Inclusivism
Irreligion
Jeffrey Stout
Jewish education
Jewish ethics
Jewish philosophy
Jews
Judaism
Judeo-Christian
Kabbalah
Kantian ethics
Lurianic Kabbalah
Maimonides
Martin Buber
Masoretic Text
Monotheism
Non-Zionism
Old Testament
On Truth
Orthodox Judaism
Pelagianism
Philosophy
Postmodernism
Reform Judaism
Religion
Renunciation
Rosenzweig
Sacred history
Secularization
Self-denial
Separation of church and state
Soren Kierkegaard
Theology
Thought
Wilhelm Dilthey
Zionism
Product details
- ISBN 9780691144276
- Weight: 397g
- Dimensions: 152 x 235mm
- Publication Date: 26 Jul 2009
- Publisher: Princeton University Press
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Although Franz Rosenzweig is arguably the most important Jewish philosopher of the twentieth century, his thought remains little understood. Here, Leora Batnitzky argues that Rosenzweig's redirection of German-Jewish ethical monotheism anticipates and challenges contemporary trends in religious studies, ethics, philosophy, anthropology, theology, and biblical studies. This text, which captures the hermeneutical movement of Rosenzweig's corpus, is the first to consider the full import of the cultural criticism articulated in his writings on the modern meanings of art, language, ethics, and national identity. In the process, the book solves significant conundrums about Rosenzweig's relation to German idealism, to other major Jewish thinkers, to Jewish political life, and to Christianity, and brings Rosenzweig into conversation with key contemporary thinkers. Drawing on Rosenzweig's view that Judaism's ban on idolatry is the crucial intellectual and spiritual resource available to respond to the social implications of human finitude, Batnitzky interrogates idolatry as a modern possibility.
Her analysis speaks not only to the question of Judaism's relationship to modernity (and vice versa), but also to the generic question of the present's relationship to the past--a subject of great importance to anyone contemplating the modern statuses of religious tradition, reason, science, and historical inquiry. By way of Rosenzweig, Batnitzky argues that contemporary philosophers and ethicists must relearn their approaches to religious traditions and texts to address today's central ethical problems.
Leora Batnitzky is Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University.
