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Hardcover. Condition: Fine. First edition. Octavo. xv, (1), 541, (1)pp. Index. Light green over purple boards, spine lettered in purple. A fine, as new copy. Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century showcases living Jewish thinkers who produce innovative ideas taking into consideration theology, hermeneutics, politics, ethics, science and technology, law, gender, and ecology. (OCLC) Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century encourages contemporary Jewish thinkers to reflect on the meaning of Judaism in the modern world by connecting these reflections to their own personal biographies. In so doing, it reveals the complexity of Jewish thought in the present moment. The contributors reflect on a range of political, social, ethical, and educational challenges that face Jews and Judaism today and chart a path for the future. The results showcase how Jewish philosophy encompasses the methodologies and concerns of other fields such as political theory, intellectual history, theology, religious studies, anthropology, education, comparative literature, and cultural studies. By presenting how Jewish thinkers address contemporary challenges of Jewish existence, the volume makes a valuable contribution to the humanities as a whole, especially at a time when the humanities are increasingly under duress for being irrelevant. (Publisher) Contents: Acknowledgements; Contributors; Introduction: Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century; Chapter 1 The Historian as Thinker: Reflections on (Jewish) Intellectual History; Chapter 2 After Germany: An American Jewish Philosophical Manifesto; Chapter 3 Constructing a Jewish Philosophy of Being toward Death; Chapter 4 Jewish Philosophy: Living Language at Its Limits; Chapter 5 Toward a Synthetic Philosophy; Chapter 6 Jewish Philosophy Tomorrow: Post-Messianic and Post-Lachrymose; Chapter 7 Transgressing Boundaries: Jewish Philosophy and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict.; Chapter 8 Philosophy, the Academy, and the Future of Jewish Learning. Chapter 9 Revisioning the Jewish Philosophical Encounter with Christianity; Chapter 10 Doubt and Certainty in Contemporary Jewish Piety; Chapter 11 Otherness and a Vital Jewish Religious Identity; Chapter 12 The Need for Jewish Philosophy; Chapter 13 Historicity, Dialogical Philosophy, and Moral Normativity: Discovering the Second Person; Chapter 14 Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Jewish Philosophers of Encounter; Chapter 15 A Shadowed Light: Continuity and New Directions in Jewish Philosophy.; Chapter 16 Jewish Philosophy, Ethics, and the New Brain SciencesChapter 17 God Accused: Jewish Philosophy as Antitheodicy; Chapter 18 Overcoming the Epistemological Barrier; Chapter 19 Toward a New Jewish Philosophy: From Metaphysics to Praxis; Chapter 20 A Plea for Transcendence; Chapter 21 The Preciousness of Being Human: Jewish Philosophy and the Challenge of Technology; Chapter 22 In Search of Eternal Israel: Back to an Intellectual Journey; Chapter 23 Skepticism and the Philosopher's Keeping Faith; Index. (OCLC) Volume 23 of the Brill series "Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy" (SJJTP).