Daniel H. Weiss

Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence (eBook, PDF)

• Format: PDF

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Erscheinungstermin: 6. April 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781009221641
• Artikelnr.: 70912435

Autorenporträt

Daniel H. Weiss is Polonsky-Coexist Senior Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Faculty of Divinity, University of Cambridge. He is author of Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion (2012), among other publications, and co-editor of multiple books, including Scripture and Violence (2020). Actively involved in the Cambridge Interfaith Programme, he is a recent recipient of a Humboldt Research Fellowship for Experienced Researchers.

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction
1. Moses Mendelssohn and the rabbinic suspending of coercive punishment
2. Who can command violence, and who should obey? Mendelssohn on divine sovereignty and the limits of modern Jewish integration
3. Jewishness and the prophetic anarchism of Hermann Cohen
4. Franz Rosenzweig and the Jewish alternative to militarism
5. Walter Benjamin and the antinomianism of classical rabbinic Judaism
Conclusion: no other gods, no other masters.