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Rethinking Jewish Philosophy - Beyond Particularism and Universalism (Hardcover)
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Rethinking Jewish Philosophy - Beyond Particularism and Universalism (Hardcover)
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Jewish thought is, in many ways, a paradox. Is it theology or is it
philosophy? Does it use universal methods to articulate Judaism's
particularity or does it justify Judaism's particularity with
appeals to illuminating the universal? These two sets of claims are
difficult if not impossible to reconcile, and their tension
reverberates throughout the length and breadth of Jewish
philosophical writing, from Saadya Gaon in the ninth century to
Emmanuel Levinas in the twentieth. Rather than assume, as most
scholars of Jewish philosophy do, that the terms "philosophy" and
"Judaism" simply belong together, Hughes explores the juxtaposition
and the creative tension that ensues from their cohabitation,
examining adroitly the historical, cultural, intellectual, and
religious filiations between Judaism and philosophy. Breaking with
received opinion, this book seeks to challenge the exclusionary,
particularist, and essentialist nature that is inherent to the
practice of something problematically referred to as "Jewish
philosophy." Hughes begins with the premise that Jewish philosophy
is impossible and begins the process of offering a sophisticated
and constructive rethinking of the discipline that avoids the
traditional extremes of universalism and particularism.
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