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Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis

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Description for Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis Paperback. Focusing on the problem of objectivity, the experience of the transcendent, and the relationship between redemption and politics, this title argues that the outcome for Jews is a pragmatic style of religiosity that has abandoned traditional conceptions of Judaism and is searching for new ones, a condition that he describes as 'interim Judaism'. Num Pages: 168 pages, notes, index. BIC Classification: 3JJ; HPCF; HRJ; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 5334 x 3556 x 14. Weight in Grams: 340.

Confronting the challenges of the 20th century, from modernity and the Great War to the Holocaust and postmodern culture, Jewish thinkers have wrestled with such fundamental issues as redemption and revelation, eternity and history, messianism and politics. From the turn of the century through the 1920s, European Jewish intellectuals confronted alienation and the challenges of modernity by seeking secure grounds for a meaningful life. After the Holocaust and the fall of Nazism, the rich results of their thinking—on topics such as transcendence, redemption, revelation, and politics—were reinterpreted in an atmosphere of increasing disillusion and fragmentation. In Interim Judaism, Michael L. ... Read more

Published with the generous support of Hebrew Union College–Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati

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Product Details

Format
Paperback
Publication date
2001
Publisher
Indiana University Press United States
Number of pages
168
Condition
New
Number of Pages
168
Place of Publication
Bloomington, IN, United States
ISBN
9780253214416
SKU
V9780253214416
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About Michael L. Morgan
Michael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Platonic Piety and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought. He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim, Classics in Moral and Political Theory, Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy, and A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul Franks, he has ... Read more

Reviews for Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis
The three chapters in this book—the 1999 Samuel Goldenson Lectures delivered at Hebrew Union College—reveal the cumulative knowledge of a core debate in Judaism on the dilemma between reason and revelation and its effect on contemporary American Jewish life and thought. Morgan (philosophy and Jewish studies, Indiana Univ.) focuses on three strands of intellectual fabric, namely, the problem of objectivity, ... Read more

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