Heidegger and His Jewish Reception - Couverture souple

Herskowitz, Daniel M.

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 110874995X ISBN 13 : 9781108749954

Editeur : Cambridge University Press, 2023

Synopsis

In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, he outlines the main patterns and the diverse Jewish responses to Heidegger. Herskowitz shows that through a dialectic of attraction and repulsion, Jewish thinkers developed a version of Jewishness that sought to offer the way out of the overall crisis plaguing their world, which was embodied, as they saw it, in Heidegger's life and thought. Neither turning a blind eye to Heidegger's anti-Semitism nor using it as an excuse for ignoring his philosophy, they wrestled with his existential analytic and what they took to be its religious, ethical, and political failings. Ironically, Heidegger's thought proved itself to be fertile ground for re-conceptualizing what it means to be Jewish in the modern world.

A propos du livre

À propos de l?auteur

Daniel Herskowitz is Career Research Fellow in Jewish Studies at Wolfson College, University of Oxford.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Cambridge University Press
• Date d'édition: 2023
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 110874995X
• ISBN 13: 9781108749954
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 374
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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