Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial
construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines
the implications of the different and often conflicting notions
that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is
or could be. The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of
philosophy as such. But "Jewish philosophy" does not just reflect
what "philosophy" lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of
philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses
Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin
Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the
book highlights how the most philosophic moments of their works are
those in which specific concerns of their "Jewish questions" inform
the rethinking of philosophy's disciplinarity in principal terms.
The long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the
critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and
Mendelssohn to the present emancipates not just "Jewish philosophy"
from an infelicitous pigeonhole these philosophers so pointedly
sought to reject but, more important, emancipates philosophy from
its false claims to universalism.
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