Synopses & Reviews
In Judaism and Modernity Gillian Rose continues to develop a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and post-modernism by critically re-engaging the social and political issues at stake in every reconstruction. The chapters cover Judaism and philosophy, ethics and law (Halacha), `The Future of Auschwitz', post-modern theology, Judaism and architecture, Judaism in Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno and Derrida, and modern Jewish thinkers - Cohen, Rosenzweig, Buber, Benjamin, Strauss, Arendt, Weil and Levinas. The opposition between philosophical reason and Judaic ethics is shown to ruin the possibility of critical reflection and of political action. The risks of critical rationality are reformulated for modern philosophy and for modern Jewish thought.
Review
"She promises one more book, to be entitled
Judaism and Modernity, which will surely round off, or at least make more graspable, what is emerging as one of the most brilliant intellectual enterprises in recent years."
Fergus Kerr, Journal of the British Sociological Association "This is a book to make one want to read philosophy once again. I can think of no higher praise." Times Higher Education Supplement
Synopsis
In Judaism and Modernity: Philosophical Essays , Gillian Rose continues to develop a philosophical alternative to deconstruction and postmodernism. The chapters cover Judaism and philosophy, ethics and law ( Halacha , 'The Future of Auschwitz', post-modern theorlogy, Judaism and architecture, Judaism in Hegel, Nietzsche, Adorno and Derrida, and modern Jewish thinkers: Cohen, Rosenzweig, Buber, Benjamin, Strauss, Arendt, Weil and Levinas.
Description
Includes bibliographical references (p. [259]-279) and index.
About the Author
Gillian Rose is Professor of Social and Political Thought in the Department of Sociology at the University of Warwick. She is the author of The Broken Middle (Blackwell), The Dialect of Nihilism (Blackwell), Hegel Contra Sociology (Athlone), and The Melancholy Science: An Introduction to the Thought of Theodor W. Adorno (Macmillan).
Table of Contents
Preface.
Introduction.
1. Is there a Jewish Philosphy?.
2. Ethics and Halacha.
3."The Future of Auschwitz".
4. Shadow of Spirit.
5. From Speculative to Dialectical Thinking: Hegel and Adorno.
6. Of Derrida's Spirit.
7. Nietzsche's Judaica.
8. Hermann Cohen - Kant among the Prophets.
9. Franz Rosenzweig - From Hegel to Yom Kippur.
10. Soren Kierkegaard to Martin Buber - Reply from `the Single One'.
11. Walter Benjamin - Out of the Sources of Modern Judaism.
12. Angry Angels - Simone Weil and Emmanuel Levinas.
13. Architecture to Philosophy - the Postmodern Complicity.
14. Architecture after Auschwitz.
Bibliography.
Index.