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Willi Goetschel - Discipline Of Philosophy & The Invention - 9780823244966 - V9780823244966
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Discipline Of Philosophy & The Invention

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Description for Discipline Of Philosophy & The Invention Hardback. A long overdue recognition of the modernity that informs the critical trajectories of Jewish philosophers from Spinoza and Mendelssohn to the present Num Pages: 280 pages. BIC Classification: HP; JFSR1. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 231 x 155 x 23. Weight in Grams: 522.

Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site of the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions that drive the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be.
The idea of Jewish philosophy begs the question of philosophy as such. But “Jewish philosophy” does not just reflect what “philosophy” lacks. Rather, it challenges the project of philosophy itself.
Examining the thought of Spinoza, Moses Mendelssohn, Heinrich Heine, Hermann Cohen Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, Margarete Susman, Hermann Levin Goldschmidt, and others, the book highlights ... Read more

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Product Details

Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Fordham University Press United States
Number of pages
280
Condition
New
Number of Pages
280
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780823244966
SKU
V9780823244966
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99-15

About Willi Goetschel
Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.

Reviews for Discipline Of Philosophy & The Invention
"Goetschel persuasively argues for Jewish philosophy as a field that does not articulate the meaning of an identity-stance, but as a mode of inquiry that shows how the practice of philosophy has not yet, and perhaps never will, reach the universality at which it aims. For him, only such a critical spirit can portend a better future and produce a ... Read more

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