From Spinoza to Lβevinas hermeneutical, ethical and political issues in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy /

Main Author: Levy, Zeev.
Corporate Author: ebrary, Inc.
Other Authors: Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg.
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: New York : Peter Lang, 2009.
Series:Studies in Judaism, v. 4
Subjects:
Online Access:http://site.ebrary.com/lib/ucy/Doc?id=10516852
Table of Contents:
  • Pt. I. Some modern implications of Spinoza's and Mendelssohn's political and hermeneutical philosophy
  • Tolerance, liberty and equality, the concept of freedom according to Spinoza and Mendelssohn
  • On spinoza's concept of obedience
  • On the motives of Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writing
  • On J. G. Herder's and J. W. von Goethe's biblical hermeneutics
  • Pt. II. On some topics of modern Jewish philosophy
  • Hermeneutics and demythologization Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann
  • Hermeneutics and tradition
  • On death and dying, conceptual changes in the relationship between body and soul in the wake of modern science
  • Has it sense to speak about Jewish ethics?
  • Pt. III. On some political implications of Emmanuel Lβevinas philosophy
  • Lβevinas reflections on state, revolution and utopia from a Jewish perspective
  • Lβevinas on secularization in modern society
  • Lβevinas on death and hope.