Interim Judaism
Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis
Michael L. Morgan
Probes the impact of the 20th century on Jewish belief and
practice.
Confronting the challenges of the 20th century, from modernity
and the Great War to the Holocaust and postmodern culture, Jewish
thinkers have wrestled with such fundamental issues as redemption
and revelation, eternity and history, messianism and politics. From
the turn of the century through the 1920s, European Jewish
intellectuals confronted alienation and the challenges of modernity
by seeking secure grounds for a meaningful life. After the
Holocaust and the fall of Nazism, the rich results of their
thinking on topics such as transcendence, redemption, revelation,
and politics were reinterpreted in an atmosphere of increasing
disillusion and fragmentation. In Interim Judaism, Michael L.
Morgan traces the evolution of this shift in values, as expressed
in the work of social thinkers, novelists, artists, and poets as
well as philosophers and theologians at the beginning and end of
the century. Focusing on the problem of objectivity, the experience
of the transcendent, and the relationship between redemption and
politics, he argues that the outcome for contemporary Jews is a
pragmatic style of religiosity that has abandoned traditional
conceptions of Judaism and is searching and waiting for new ones, a
condition that he describes as "interim Judaism."
Michael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies
at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Platonic Piety
and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana University Press).
He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim; Classics in
Moral and Political Theory; Jewish Philosophers and Jewish
Philosophy (Indiana University Press); and A Holocaust Reader:
Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul Franks, he has
translated and edited Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and
Theological Writings.
Published with the generous support of Hebrew Union College
Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati
July 2001
128 pages, 5 1/2 x 8 1/4
cloth 0-253-33856-5 $35.00 L / 26.50
paper 0-253-21441-6 $15.95 s / 12.50 "
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