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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Hardcover)
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An Introduction to Modern Jewish Philosophy (Hardcover)
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How Jewish is modern Jewish philosophy? The question at first
appears nonsensical, until we consider that the chief issues with
which Jewish philosophers have engaged, from the Enlightenment
through to the late 20th century, are the standard preoccupations
of general philosophical inquiry. Questions about God, reality,
language, and knowledge - metaphysics and epistemology - have been
of as much concern to Jewish thinkers as they have been to others.
Moses Mendelssohn, for example, was a friend of Kant. Hermann
Cohen's philosophy is often described as 'neo-Kantian.' Franz
Rosenzweig wrote his dissertation on Hegel. And the thought of
Emmanuel Levinas is indebted to Husserl. In this much-needed
textbook, which surveys the most prominent thinkers of the last
three centuries, Claire Katz situates modern Jewish philosophy in
the wider cultural and intellectual context of its day, indicating
how broader currents of British, French and German thought
influenced its practitioners. But she also addresses the unique
ways in which being Jewish coloured their output, suggesting that a
keen sense of particularity enabled the Jewish philosophers to help
define the whole modern era. Intended to be used as a core
undergraduate text, the book will also appeal to anyone with an
interest how some of the greatest minds of the age grappled with
some of its most urgent and fascinating philosophical problems.
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