Tamar Ross: Constructing Faith: 17 (Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers) - Softcover

Softcover

ISBN 10: 9004317384 ISBN 13: 9789004317383

Publisher: Brill, 2016

Synopsis

Tamar Ross is Professor of Jewish Philosophy (Emerita) at Bar-Ilan University. She has written extensively on the Musar movement, the thought of Rabbi Abraham Isaac Kook, the ideology of Mitnagedism, and the relationship of Orthodoxy and feminism. Conversant with classical rabbinic sources and analytic philosophy, she champions the notion of cumulative revelation in pursuit of a non-foundationalist notion of truth, both religious and scientific. Responding to the feminist critique, she articulates an original and constructive Jewish theology sympathetic to the later stages of Wittgenstein's philosophy of language and to complementary motifs in Jewish mysticism. Her philosophy of halakha similarly builds on post-positivist legal theory, demonstrating the transformative influence of women's direct input on a legal system previously managed exclusively by men.

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About the Author

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona.

Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

Edition details

• Publisher: Brill
• Publication date: 2016
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 9004317384
• ISBN 13: 9789004317383
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 328
• Editor: Tirosh-Samuelson Hava, Hughes Aaron W