Martin Shuster

How to Measure a World?

A Philosophy of Judaism

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Produktbeschreibung

How to Measure a World? examines the vastness of the Jewish philosophical record and the full intellectual scope and range of Emmanuel Levinas's claim that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism.

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Produktdetails

• New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
• Verlag: Indiana University Press
• Seitenzahl: 258
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2021
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 126mm x 203mm x 19mm
• Gewicht: 296g
• ISBN-13: 9780253054548
• ISBN-10: 0253054540
• Artikelnr.: 59921382

Autorenporträt

Martin Shuster is Associate Professor of Philosophy and holds the Professorship of Judaic Studies and Justice at Goucher College in Baltimore, Maryland, where he previously directed the Judaic studies program and where he currently directs the Center for Geographies of Justice. In addition to many articles and book chapters across a range of topics, he is the author of Autonomy after Auschwitz: Adorno, German Idealism, and Modernity and New Television: The Aesthetics and Politics of a Genre and the coeditor of Logics of Genocide: The Structures of Violence and the Contemporary World.

Inhaltsangabe

Acknowledgments
Introduction
Having a World
1. Wonder and World: Maimonides's Phenomenology
2. Suffering and World: Adorno's Negativity
Preconditions of Having a World
3. History and World: Benjamin and Adorno on Ethical Depth
4. Language and World: Levinas and Cavell on Ethical Foundations
Conclusion
Works Cited
Index