Judaism in Contemporary Thought: Traces and Influence by Agata Bielik-Robson,Adam Lipszyc

By Agata Bielik-Robson,Adam Lipszyc

The valuable target of this assortment is to track the presence of Jewish culture in modern philosophy. This presence is, at the one hand, indisputable, manifesting itself in manifold allusions and affects – at the different hand, difficult to outline, hardly concerning overtly printed Judaic resources.



Following the new culture of Lévinas and Derrida, this e-book tentatively refers to this mode of presence by way of "traces of Judaism" and the individuals grapple with the next questions: What are those strains and the way do we music them down? Is there any such factor as "Jewish distinction" that actually makes a distinction in philosophy? And if that is so, how will we outline it? the extra operating speculation, accredited by way of a few and challenged through different members, is that Jewish idea attracts, explicitly or implicitly, on 3 major techniques of Jewish theology, creation, revelation and redemption. if that is so, then the specificity of the Jewish contribution to trendy philosophy and the theoretical humanities might be present in – occasionally open, occasionally hidden – constancy to those 3 categories.



Offering a brand new realizing of the connection among philosophy and theology, this booklet is a crucial contribution to the fields of Theology, Philosophy and Jewish Studies.

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