Critique of Halakhic Reason - Brafman, Yonatan Y
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Critique of Halakhic Reason challenges prevalent ways of thinking about religion by revealing how religious traditions and communities reason about their practices. It examines the reasoning operative in the justification and jurisprudence of the Jewish commandments through fresh studies of twentieth century Jewish thinkers. It then constructs a novel account of the relation between Jewish thought and law in view of contemporary moral philosophy and legal theory. It then develops its consequences for theology, the study and philosophy of religion, as well as for moral, legal, and political philosophy.…mehr

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Critique of Halakhic Reason challenges prevalent ways of thinking about religion by revealing how religious traditions and communities reason about their practices. It examines the reasoning operative in the justification and jurisprudence of the Jewish commandments through fresh studies of twentieth century Jewish thinkers. It then constructs a novel account of the relation between Jewish thought and law in view of contemporary moral philosophy and legal theory. It then develops its consequences for theology, the study and philosophy of religion, as well as for moral, legal, and political philosophy.
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Autorenporträt
Yonatan Y. Brafman is Assistant Professor of Modern Judaism in the Department of Religion and Program in Judaic Studies at Tufts University. He is a scholar of Jewish thought and a philosopher of religion whose work focuses on Jewish law in the context of contemporary moral, legal, and political philosophy. He has held fellowships at the Katz Center for Advanced Judaic Studies at the University of Pennsylvania, Princeton University, New York University Law School, and Cardozo School of Law. He holds a PhD in Philosophy of Religion and Jewish Thought from Columbia University.