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Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos - David Koigen's Contribution to the Sociology of Religion (Hardcover, annotated edition)
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Theodicy of Culture and the Jewish Ethos - David Koigen's Contribution to the Sociology of Religion (Hardcover, annotated edition)
Series: Studia Judaica
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This volume presents the theory of culture of the Russian-born
German Jewish social philosopher David Koigen (1879-1933). Heir to
Hermann Cohen's neo-Kantian interpretation of Judaism, he
transforms the religion of reason into an ethical
Intimitatsreligion. He draws upon a great variety of intellectual
currents, among them, Max Scheler's philosophy of values, the
historical sociology of Max Weber, the sociology of religion of
Emile Durkheim, Ernst Troeltsch and Georg Simmel and American
pragmatism. Influenced by his personal experience of marginality in
German academia yet the same time unconstrained by the dictates of
the German Jewish discourse, Koigen shapes these theoretical
strands into an original argument which unfolds along two
trajectories: theodicy of culture and ethos. Distinguished from
ethics, ethos identifies the non-formal factors that foster a
group's sense of collective identity as it adapts to continuous
change. From a Jewish perspective, ethos is grounded in the
biblical covenant as the paradigm of a social contract and
corporate liability. Although the normative content of the
covenantal ethos is subject to gradual secularization, its
metaphysical and existential assumptions, Koigen argues, continue
to inform Jewish self-understanding. The concept of ethos
identifies the dialectic of tradition as it shapes Jewish religious
consciousness, and, in turn, is shaped by the evolving cultural and
axiological sensibilities. In consonance, Jewish identity cannot be
reduced to ethnicity or a purely secular culture. Urban develops
these fragmentary and inchoate theories into a sociology of
religious knowledge and suggests to read Koigen not just as a
Jewish sociologist but as the first sociologist of Judaism who
proposes to overcome the dogmatic anti-metaphysical stance of
European sociology.
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