The 2001 Mathers Lecture, the 2001 Rosen Lecture, and Other Queen's University Essays in the Study of Judaism - Couverture souple

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1586841556 ISBN 13 : 9781586841553

Editeur : Global Academic Publishing, 2001

Synopsis

A collection of lectures given at Queen's University by academics in Judaic Studies.

Universities not only sustain scholarship, creating new knowledge and testing the old, but also shape culture. They do this by persuading scholars to address a broad audience with the results of rigorous learning. Lectures for a wide public form a principal means by which university professors shape the intellectual life. They address issues of broad concern, and when they do so, they clarify and deepen public discourse.

But university scholars not only contribute to the public interest by sharing their knowledge, they also gain from serving as public intellectuals. The vocation to speak beyond the limits of specialization imposes its own discipline and presents its own intellectual challenge. Specifically, academic scholars are challenged to think through the details of their subject matter in quest of the main point-what matters and makes a difference to the world at large. And that process of retrospection and introspection provides perspective even on the most arcane recondite and technical aspects of their learning and research.

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À propos de l?auteur

Professor Marvin Fox received his B.A. in philosophy in 1942 from Northwestern University, the M.A. in the same field in 1946, and the Ph.D. at the University of Chicago in 1950 in that field as well. His education in Judaic texts was certified by rabbinical ordination as Rabbi by the Hebrew Theological College of Chicago in 1942. He served as a Jewish Chaplain in the US Army Air Force during World War II from 1942 to 1946. He taught at Ohio State University from 1948 through 1974, rising from Instructor to Professor of Philosophy. During those years he served also as Visiting Professor of Philosophy at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem and Bar Ilan University (1970-1971). In 1974 he came to Brandeis University as Appleman Professor of Jewish Thought, and from 1976 onward he has held the Lown Professorship. He has received numerous academic awards, lectured widely at universities and at national and international academic conferences and served as Member of the National Endowment for the Humanities National Board of Consultants for new programs at colleges and universities.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Global Academic Publishing
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1586841556
• ISBN 13: 9781586841553
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 141
• Éditeur: Neusner Jacob
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• Personne responsable: non disponible