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Reasoning After Revelation - Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Paperback, Revised)
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Reasoning After Revelation - Dialogues in Postmodern Jewish Philosophy (Paperback, Revised)
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Postmodern Jewish thinkers understand their Jewishness differently,
but they all share a fidelity to what they call the ?Torah? and to
communal practices of reading and social action that have their
bases in rabbinic interpretations of biblical narrative, law, and
belief. Thus, postmodern Jewish thinking is thinking about God,
Jews, and the world?with the texts of the Torah?in the company of
fellow seekers and believers. It utilizes the tools of philosophy,
but without their modern premises. Moreover, this form of Jewish
thinking provides resources for philosophically disciplined
readings of scripture by Jews, Christians, and Moslems seeking
alternatives to the reductive discourses of secular academia, on
the one hand, and to antimodern religious fundamentalisms, on the
other. Postmodern Jewish Philosophy aims to utilize rabbinic modes
of thinking to provide a model for ethical and religious thought in
the twenty-first century, one which moves beyond the dichotomy of
relativism and imperialism and is simultaneously definite and
pluralistic.In Reasoning After Revelation: Dialogues in Postmodern
Jewish Philosophy, three preeminent Jewish scholars debate the form
and meaning of Postmodern Jewish Philosophy after the failures of
the great secular ideologies of modern western civilization.
Emulating the methods as well as the premises of Talmudic
argumentation, the authors present their responses as dialogues
joined by a common love of the rabbinic tradition of commentary and
interpretation of the Bible. The composers, Peter Ochs, Robert
Gibbs, and Steven Kepnes, contemplate where Judaism has been?and
where it is headed: on what basis will modern Jews now reason about
the meaning of Jewish existence and the relevance of age-old
Biblical traditions to the moral and social crises of the
twenty-first century? The dialogues are further enriched by a set
of responses from leading Jewish philosophers: Elliot R. Wolfson,
Edith Wyschogrod, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, Yudit Kornberg Greenberg,
and Susan E. Shapiro.
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