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Informationen zum Autor edited by Aaron W. Hughes, Elliot R. Wolfson, with contributions by Kalman P. Bland, Almut Sh. Bruckstein, James A. Diamond, Sergey Dolgopolski, Michah Gottlieb, Dana Hollander, Martin Kavka Klappentext Breaking with strictly historical or textual perspectives, this book explores Jewish philosophy as philosophy. Often regarded as too technical for Judaic studies and too religious for philosophy departments, Jewish philosophy has had an ambiguous position in the academy. These provocative essays propose new models for the study of Jewish philosophy that embrace wider intellectual arenas-including linguistics, poetics, aesthetics, and visual culture-as a path toward understanding the particular philosophic concerns of Judaism. As they reread classic Jewish texts, the essays articulate a new set of questions and demonstrate the vitality and originality of Jewish philosophy. Zusammenfassung Identifies philosophic questions that are important to Jewish thought. This book proposes various models for the study of Jewish philosophy that embrace wider intellectual arenas - including linguistics, poetics, aesthetics, and visual culture - as a path toward understanding the particular philosophic concerns of Judaism. Inhaltsverzeichnis Introduction: Charting an Alternative Course for the Study of Jewish Philosophy / Aaron W. Hughes and Elliot R. Wolfson Part 1. The Past Confronts the Present, the Present Confronts Its Past: Challenging Canonicity 1. Screening the Canon: Levinas and Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Martin Kavka 2. Precursorship and the Forgetting of History: Franz Rosenzweig and Saadya Gaon on the Memory of Translation / Aaron W. Hughes Part 2. Text beyond Text: Emphasizing Vision and the Visual 3. Light Does Not Talk but Shines: Apophasis and Vision in Rosenzweig's Theopoetic Temporality / Elliot R. Wolfson 4. Textual Body Landscapes and the Artist's Geometry of Talmud: Atelier-Work with the Materiality of Scripture / Almut Sh. Bruckstein Part 3. Others Confront Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Philosophy Absorbs Its Others 5. Construction of Animals in Medieval Jewish Philosophy / Kalman P. Bland 6. Sharing Secrets: Inter-confessional Philosophy as Dialogical Practice / Steven M. Wasserstrom 7. Ethical-Political Universality Out of the Sources of Judaism: Reading Hermann Cohen's 1888 Affidavit In and Out of Context / Dana Hollander Part 4. New Takes on Old Problems 8. What Is the Sophist? Who Is the Rabbi? / Sergey Dolgopolski 9. Forging a New Righteous Nation: Maimonides' Midrashic Interweave of Verse and Text / James A. Diamond 10. Aesthetics and the Infinite: Moses Mendelssohn on the Poetics of Biblical Prophecy / Michah Gottlieb List of Contributors Index ...
