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Author Weiss, Daniel, author.

Title Modern Jewish philosophy and the politics of divine violence / Daniel H. Weiss
Published Cambridge, United Kingdom ; New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2023
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Description 1 online resource (xii, 330 pages)
Contents Chapter 1: Moses Mendelssohn and the rabbinic suspending of coercive punishment -- Chapter 2: Who can command violence, and who should obey? Mendelssohn on divine sovereignty and the limits of modern Jewish integration -- Chapter 3: Jewishness and the prophetic anarchism of Hermann Cohen -- Chapter 4: Franz Rosenzweig and the Jewish alternative to militarism -- Chapter 5: Walter Benjamin and the antinomianism of classical rabbinic Judaism -- Conclusion: No other gods, no other masters
Summary "Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers - Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin - in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and philosophical debates. Weiss brings to light striking political aspects of the writings of the modern Jewish philosophers, who have often been understood as non-political. In addition, he shows how the four modern thinkers are more radical and more shaped by Jewish tradition than has previously been thought. Taken as a whole, Weiss' book argues for a fundamental rethinking of the relationship between Judaism and politics, the history of Jewish thought, and the ethical and political dynamics of the broader Western philosophical tradition"-- Provided by publisher
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and indexes
Notes Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on April 12, 2023)
Subject Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786.
Cohen, Herman, 1860-1932.
Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929.
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Benjamin, Walter, 1892-1940
Mendelssohn, Moses, 1729-1786
Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929
God (Judaism) -- Philosophy
Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.
Rabbinical literature -- Hstory and criticism -- Theory, etc
Jewish philosophy
Philosophy, Modern
Form Electronic book
LC no. 2022050150
ISBN 9781009221627
1009221620
9781009221641
1009221647