Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays

by Gillian Rose

Overview

A reinterpretation of thinkers from Benjamin and Rosenzweig to Simone Weil and Derrida

Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays challenges the philosophical presentation of Judaism as the sublime ‘other’ of modernity. Here, Gillian Rose develops a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9781786630902
Publisher:	Verso Books
Publication date:	03/28/2017
Sold by:	Penguin Random House Publisher Services
Format:	eBook
Pages:	304
File size:	633 KB

About the Author

Gillian Rose (1947–1995) was a British philosopher and sociologist. She is the author of The Melancholy Science, Paradiso, Mourning Becomes the Law, The Broken Middle; Dialectic of Nihilism, Hegel Contra Sociology, and Love’s Work.

Table of Contents

Preface.

Introduction.

1. Is there a Jewish Philosphy?.

2. Ethics and Halacha.

3."The Future of Auschwitz".

4. Shadow of Spirit.

5. From Speculative to Dialectical Thinking: Hegel and Adorno.

6. Of Derrida's Spirit.

7. Nietzsche's Judaica.

8. Hermann Cohen - Kant among the Prophets.

9. Franz Rosenzweig - From Hegel to Yom Kippur.

10. Soren Kierkegaard to Martin Buber - Reply from 'the Single One'.

11. Walter Benjamin - Out of the Sources of Modern Judaism.

12. Angry Angels - Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas.

13. Architecture to Philosophy - the Postmodern Complicity.

14. Architecture after Auschwitz.

Bibliography.

Index.

Editorial Reviews

A fierce vigilance of thought.”
—Guardian

“This is a book to make one want to read philosophy once again. I can think of no higher praise.”
—Times Higher Education

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