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Rorty and the Prophetic - Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher (Hardcover)
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Rorty and the Prophetic - Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher (Hardcover)
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Rorty and the Prophetic interrogates and provides a constructive
assessment to the American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard
Rorty's critiques of Jewish ethics. Rorty dismisses the public
applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based on
"the will of God" through divine revelation. As a self-described
secular philosopher, it comes as no surprise that Rorty does not
find public applicability within a divinely-ordered Jewish ethic.
Rorty also rejects the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's
ethics, which is based upon the notion of infinite responsibility
to the Face of the Other. In Rorty's judgment, Levinas's ethics is
"gawky, awkward, and unenlightening." From a Rortyan perspective,
it seems that Jewish ethics simply can't win: either it is either
too dependent on the will of God or over-emphasizes the human
Other. The volume responds to Rorty's criticisms of Jewish ethics
in three different ways: first, demonstrating agreements between
Rorty and Jewish thinkers; second, offering reflective responses to
Rorty's critiques of Judaism on the questions of Messianism,
prophecy, and the relationship between politics and theology;
third, taking on Rorty's seemingly unfair judgment that Levinas's
ethics is "gawky, awkward, and unenlightening." While Rorty does
not engage the prophetic tradition of Jewish thought in his essay,
"Glorious Hopes, Failed Prophecies," he dismisses the possibility
for prophetic reasoning because of its other-worldliness and its
emphasis on predicting the future. Rorty fails to attend to and
recognize the complexity of prophetic reasoning, and this book
presents the complexity of the prophetic within Judaism. Toward
these ends and more, Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob L. Goodson offer
this book to scholars who contribute to the Jewish academy, those
within American Philosophy, and those who think Richard Rorty's
voice ought to remain in "conversations" about religion and
"conversations" among the religious.
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