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OverviewHermann Cohen (1842-1918) is widely regarded as the most influential representative of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, and his Religion of Reason is often described as one of the most significant attempts to wrestle with the competing claims of philosophy and the Jewish religious tradition since Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. Nevertheless, Cohen has often been treated merely as an historical precursor to later Jewish thinkers like Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.Daniel H. Weiss offers an insightful new reading of Religion of Reason, arguing that the style and method of Cohen's final work have long been fundamentally misunderstood. Previous readers, puzzled by the seemingly incompatible perspectives within Religion of Reason, have tended either to uphold one or another of the text's 'voices' or to criticize the text for intellectual incoherence. Weiss demonstrates that the multiplicity of Cohen's text is an essential element of its rational and communicative purposes. Drawing upon Kierkegaard as a theorist of indirect communication, he shows how Cohen combines the 'incompatible voices' of philosophy and of Scripture in order to convey religious and ethical ideas-such as the unique God, the other as You, and the messianic future-that would be distorted in a fully consistent, single-voiced mode of thought and communication. While focusing on the details and style of Cohen's text, Paradox and the Prophets also explores the broader philosophical claim that Religion of Reason, far from representing an outdated mode of thought, serves as a model for contemporary efforts to reason about religion and ethics. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Daniel H. Weiss (Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Cambridge University, Cambridge, UK)Publisher: Oxford University Press Inc Imprint: Oxford University Press Inc Dimensions: Width: 23.90cm , Height: 3.10cm , Length: 16.30cm Weight: 0.590kg ISBN: 9780199895908ISBN 10: 0199895902 Pages: 352 Publication Date: 21 June 2012 Audience: Professional and scholarly , College/higher education , Professional & Vocational , Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: To order  Stock availability from the supplier is unknown. We will order it for you and ship this item to you once it is received by us. Table of ContentsAbbreviations Introduction A Note on Terminology: Warding off some common connotations Chapter 1: Hermann Cohen's''The Style of the Prophets'' Chapter 2: The Sources of Multiplicity: Cohen's Project in its Own Terms Chapter 3: Resisting Aufloesung: A Single-voiced Attempt Chapter 4: Making Cohen's Style Explicit: A Kierkegaardian Interlude Chapter 5: Communicating through Contradiction: Cohen's Performance of Religious Concepts Chapter 6: The Task, the Moment, and the Messianic Future Conclusion BibliographyReviewsAuthor InformationPolonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Cambridge University Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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