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 tions 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 t just reflect what philosophy lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself. Examining the thought of Spiza, 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 Spiza and Mendelssohn to the present emancipates t 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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Fordham University Press
ISBN-10
0823244970
ISBN-13
9780823244973
eBay Product ID (ePID)
214406766
Product Key Features
Author
Willi Goetschel
Format
Trade Paperback (US), Paperback
Language
English
Subject
Philosophy
Type
Textbook
Dimensions
Weight
3g
Height
229mm
Width
152mm
Additional Product Features
Place of Publication
New York
Spine
16mm
Content Note
Black & White Illustrations
Author Biography
Willi Goetschel Is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.