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Title Jewish philosophy for the twenty-first century : personal reflections / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes
Published Leiden, the Netherlands ; Boston : Brill, [2014]

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Description 1 online resource (xv, 541 pages .)
Series Supplements to the Journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; volume 23
Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 23.
Contents Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 1 The Historian as Thinker: Reflections on (Jewish) Intellectual History; Chapter 2 After Germany: An American Jewish Philosophical Manifesto; Chapter 3 Constructing a Jewish Philosophy of Being toward Death; Chapter 4 Jewish Philosophy: Living Language at Its Limits; Chapter 5 Toward a Synthetic Philosophy; Chapter 6 Jewish Philosophy Tomorrow: Post-Messianic and Post-Lachrymose; Chapter 7 Transgressing Boundaries: Jewish Philosophy and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict
Chapter 8 Philosophy, the Academy, and the Future of Jewish LearningChapter 9 Revisioning the Jewish Philosophical Encounter with Christianity; Chapter 10 Doubt and Certainty in Contemporary Jewish Piety; Chapter 11 Otherness and a Vital Jewish Religious Identity; Chapter 12 The Need for Jewish Philosophy; Chapter 13 Historicity, Dialogical Philosophy, and Moral Normativity: Discovering the Second Person; Chapter 14 Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Jewish Philosophers of Encounter; Chapter 15 A Shadowed Light: Continuity and New Directions in Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 16 Jewish Philosophy, Ethics, and the New Brain SciencesChapter 17 God Accused: Jewish Philosophy as Antitheodicy; Chapter 18 Overcoming the Epistemological Barrier; Chapter 19 Toward a New Jewish Philosophy: From Metaphysics to Praxis; Chapter 20 A Plea for Transcendence; Chapter 21 The Preciousness of Being Human: Jewish Philosophy and the Challenge of Technology; Chapter 22 In Search of Eternal Israel: Back to an Intellectual Journey; Chapter 23 Skepticism and the Philosopher's Keeping Faith; Index
Summary Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century showcases living Jewish thinkers who produce innovative ideas taking into consideration theology, hermeneutics, politics, ethics, science and technology, law, gender, and ecology
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index
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Subject Jewish philosophy -- 21st century.
PHILOSOPHY -- Eastern.
Jewish philosophy
Form Electronic book
Author Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950- editor.
Hughes, Aaron W., 1968- editor
ISBN 9004279628
9789004279629