Avi Sagi

Jewish Religion After Theology

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktbeschreibung

Jewish Religion after Theology ponders one of the most intriguing shifts in modern Jewish thought: from a metaphysical and theological standpoint toward a new manner of philosophizing based primarily on practice. Different chapters study this great shift and its various manifestations. The central figure of this new examination is Isaiah Leibowitz, whose thoughts encapsulate more than any other Jewish thinker this stance of religion without metaphysics. Sagi explores corresponding issues such as observance, the possibility of pluralism, the meaning of penance without messianic suppositions, and pragmatic coping with theodicy after the Holocaust, presenting the different possibilities within this great alteration in Jewish thought.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Academic Studies Press
• Seitenzahl: 264
• Erscheinungstermin: 19. Mai 2009
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 156mm x 14mm
• Gewicht: 406g
• ISBN-13: 9781934843567
• ISBN-10: 1934843563
• Artikelnr.: 26541748

Autorenporträt

Avi Sagi (Ph.D. Bar-Ilan University, 1988) is a Professor at Bar-Ilan University and Senior Research Fellow, Shalom Hartman Institute, Jerusalem. His recent books include Circles of Jewish Identity (with Zvi Zohar), Tel Aviv, 2000; `Elu va Elu` A Study on the Meaning of Halakhic Discourse, Tel Aviv, 1996

Inhaltsangabe

Preface. Chapter One: Are Toleration and Pluralism Possible in Jewish
Religion? Notes. Chapter Two: Yeshayahu Leibovitz: The Man against his
Thought. Notes. Chapter Three: Leibowitz and Camus: Between Faith and the
Absurd. Notes. Chapter Four: Jewish Religion without Theology. Notes.
Chapter Five: The Critique of Theodicy: From Metaphysics to Praxis. Notes.
Chapter Six: The Holocaust: A Theological or a Religious-Existentialist
Problem? Notes. Chapter Seven: Tikkun Olam: Between Utopian Idea and
Socio-Historical Process. Notes. Bibliography. Index.