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By Martin Kavka, Zachary Braiterman, David Novak
The second one quantity of the Cambridge historical past of Jewish Philosophy presents a accomplished evaluate of Jewish philosophy from the 17th century to the current day. Written through a individual workforce of specialists within the box, its essays research how Jewish pondering was once converted in its come across with sleek Europe and the US and problem longstanding assumptions concerning the nature and objective of recent Jewish philosophy. the amount additionally treats sleek Jewish philosophy's continuities with premodern texts and thinkers, the connection among philosophy and theology, the ritual and political lifetime of the folk of Israel, and the ways that vintage smooth philosophical different types aid or prevent Jewish self-articulation. those essays supply readers a multi-faceted realizing of the Jewish philosophical company within the smooth interval.
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In so doing, Jewish philosophers have rethought, through reason, the very project of modern philosophy – a critical challenge that seems often lost in conventional accounts of philosophy in modernity. 1 Though the middle ages had relegated Jews to a distinct if subaltern place of negative significance, modern universalism was no longer interested in a distinct Jewish difference when secularized post-Reformation Christianity had become the undisputed and single paradigm for spiritual and intellectual life.
289f. See H. Cohen 1972, p. 113 and 249ff. See also Kavka 2004, pp. 94–124. ” (Husik 1916, p. 432; see also Frank and Leaman 1997, p. 5, and S. Nadler and Rudavsky 2008, p. ) For Husik, either Jewish philosophy uncovers a universal truth (and is thereby truly philosophical), or it articulates a particular stance (and is thereby the articulation of one culture’s opinions about matters). See Hollander 2008. Rosenzweig 1988, p. 3; Rosenzweig 1985, p. 3. See P. Gordon 2003, pp. 143–50. Rosenzweig 1988, p.
48–98. See Schwarzschild 1987. Wyschogrod 1998, pp. 174–217, esp. pp. 176ff . See Braiterman 2007b; Biemann 2006; Biemann 2009, pp. 274–305; Bland 2000;V. Mann 2000; Olin 2001. My thanks to David Novak, and especially to Zachary Braiterman, for their feedback on previous drafts of this introduction. 127 on Mon Oct 13 01:11:28 BST 2014. 128 on Mon Oct 13 01:07:10 BST 2014. 003 Cambridge Histories Online © Cambridge University Press, 2014 1 ENLIGHTENMENT WILLI GOETSCHEL With the Enlightenment begins what is considered the period of modern philosophy, a period that starts with a tabula rasa, returning to reason as the pure source of understanding – or so it is often argued.