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Overview"Confronting the challenges of the 20th century, from modernity and the Great War to the Holocaust and postmodern culture, Jewish thinkers have wrestled with such fundamental issues as redemption and revelation, eternity and history, messianism and politics. From the turn of the century through the 1920s, European Jewish intellectuals confronted alienation and the challenges of modernity by seeking secure grounds for a meaningful life. After the Holocaust and the fall of Nazism, the rich results of their thinking - on topics such as transcendence, redemption, revelation, and politics - were reinterpreted in an atmosphere of increasing disillusion and fragmentation. In ""Interim Judaism"", Michael L. Morgan traces the evolution of this shift in values, as expressed in the work of social thinkers, novelists, artists, and poets as well as philosophers and theologians at the beginning and end of the century. Focusing on the problem of objectivity, the experience of the transcendent, and the relationship between redemption and politics, Morgan argues that the outcome for contemporary Jews is a pragmatic style of religiosity that has abandoned traditional conceptions of Judaism and is searching and waiting for new ones, a condition that he describes as ""interim Judaism.""" Full Product DetailsAuthor: Michael L. MorganPublisher: Indiana University Press Imprint: Indiana University Press Dimensions: Width: 14.00cm , Height: 2.00cm , Length: 21.00cm Weight: 0.340kg ISBN: 9780253338563ISBN 10: 0253338565 Pages: 168 Publication Date: 22 June 2001 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Out of Print Availability: Awaiting stock  Table of ContentsPreliminary Table of Contents: Introduction 1. The Problem of Objectivity Before and After Auschwitz 2. Revelation, Language, and the Search for Transcendence 3. Messianism and Politics: Incremental Redemption Conclusion: Judaism Before Theory Notes IndexReviews<p>. .. this book... reveal[s] the cumulative knowledge of a core debate inJudaism on the dilemma between reason and revelation and its effect on contemporaryAmerican Jewish life and thought. -- Choice, December 2001 Author InformationMichael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is author of Platonic Piety and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought. He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim, Classics in Moral and Political Theory, Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy, and A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul Franks, he has translated and edited Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological Writings. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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