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Authors: Alan T. Levenson
ISBN-13: 9780742546073, ISBN-10: 0742546071
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Rowman & Littlefield Publishers, Inc.
Date Published: February 2006
Edition: 2nd Edition
Highlighting well-known Jewish thinkers from a very wide spectrum of opinion the author addresses a range of issues including: What makes a thinker Jewish? What makes modern Jewish thought modern? How have secular Jews integrated Jewish traditional thought with agnosticism? What do Orthodox thinkers have to teach non-Orthodox Jews and vice versa?
Pt. I | Modern Judaism : attack and defense | 1 |
1 | Baruch Spinoza's critique of traditional religion | 5 |
2 | Moses Mendelssohn's defense of Judaism : between reason and revelation | 25 |
3 | Samson Raphael Hirsch's defense of Judaism : the reconciliation of modernity and the Mitzvot | 41 |
4 | Abraham Geiger's defense of Judaism : continuity and change | 53 |
Pt. II | Recovering tradition for the individual and the community | 67 |
5 | Martin Buber : restoring the Jewish individual | 73 |
6 | Franz Rosenzweig : from alienated existentialist to Ba'al Teshuvah | 89 |
7 | Theodor Herzl : a Jewish modernist from Western Europe | 103 |
8 | Ahad Ha'am (Asher Zvi Ginzberg) : a Jewish modernist from Eastern Europe | 117 |
9 | Mordecai Kaplan : a secularist (re)constructs religion | 133 |
Pt. III | Recovering Kedushah (the sacred) in a profane age | 159 |
10 | Israel Salanter : restoring "fear of heaven" to human behavior | 165 |
11 | Abraham Isaac Kook : mysticism and nationalism | 183 |
12 | Joseph Soloveitchik : Halachah and existentialism | 197 |
13 | Abraham Joshua Heschel : universal Hasidism | 209 |
Conclusion : mending the world/mending Israel | 223 |