Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and the Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought (SUNY Series in Jewish Philosophy) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0791412105 ISBN 13: 9780791412107

Publisher: State University of New York Press, 1992

Synopsis

This volume brings together leading philosophers of Judaism on the issue of autonomy in the Jewish tradition. Addressing themselves to the relationship of the individual Jew to the Jewish community and to the world at large, some selections are systematic in scope, while others are more historically focused. The authors address issues ranging from the earliest expressions of individual human fulfillment in the Bible and medieval Jewish discussions of the human good to modern discussions of the necessity for the Jew to maintain both a Jewish sensibility as well as an active engagement in the modern pluralistic state. Contributors include Eugene Borowitz, Elliot N. Dorff, Daniel H. Frank, Robert Gibbs, Lenn E. Goodman, Ze’ev Levy, Kenneth Seeskin, and Martin D. Yaffe.

About this title

About the Author:

Daniel H. Frank is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

Review:

“The book demonstrates the liveliness of modern Jewish philosophy, as well as its continuing engagement with a wide range of philosophical schools and methods: Kantian and neo-Kantian, Aristotelian and Maimonidean, Marx, Gadamer, and of course a wide range of biblical and classical rabbinic texts. The work is rich, suggestive and, on the whole, quite accessible.” ― Louis E. Newman, Carleton College

About this edition

• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Publication date: 1992
• ISBN 10: 0791412105
• ISBN 13: 9780791412107
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 246
• Editor: Frank Daniel H.