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OverviewTo Be a Jew deals with the question of the meaning and rationale that the writer Joseph Chayim Brenner attributes to Jewish existence. Many of Brenner's readers assumed that Brenner completely negated Jewish existence and sought to form a new way of life completely disconnected from the traditional Jewish existence. In contrast to this perception, Avi Sagi proves that not only did Brenner not reject the value of the Jewish existence, but the core of his creation was written out of a deep Jewish commitment. Brenner's greatest innovation is found in his new conception of Jewish existence. To be a Jew, according to Brenner, involves the willingness to discover solidarity with actual Jews, to participate in a society in which Jews can live a free life and to fashion their culture as they wish. Sagi presents the idea that Brenner's is not a Utopian, but a realistic, conception of Jewish existence. Thus this unique conception of Jewish existence is founded on an infrastructure of existential thought. Full Product DetailsAuthor: Avi SagiPublisher: Continuum Publishing Corporation Imprint: Continuum Publishing Corporation Volume: 8 Dimensions: Width: 15.60cm , Height: 1.40cm , Length: 23.40cm Weight: 0.507kg ISBN: 9781441195838ISBN 10: 1441195831 Pages: 240 Publication Date: 19 May 2011 Audience: Professional and scholarly , Professional & Vocational Format: Hardback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: Manufactured on demand  We will order this item for you from a manufactured on demand supplier. Language: English Table of Contents"Preface \ 1. A preliminary Outline of Brenner's Approach \ 2. Brenner, the Personal Writer \ 3. Brenner and the Existential Meaning of Literature \ 4. An Existentialist Analysis of Existence \ 5. The Personal and the Jewish Dimensions \ 6. Moulding Jewish Life \ 7. Jewish Existence and Nationalism \ 8. Brenner's Manifesto: 'One the ""Vision"" of Apostasy' \ Bibliography \ Index"ReviewsAuthor InformationAvi Sagi is Professor of Philosophy, and Founder and Director of the Interdisciplinary Graduate Program in Hermeneutics and Cultural Studies, at Bar-Ilan University, Israel. He is Senior Research Fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute, Israel. He has written and edited numerous books and articles in Jewish and general philosophy, among them Religion and Morality (with Daniel Statman, New York: 1995) and the recently released Judaism: Between Religion and Morality (Tel Aviv: 1998) and Albert Camus and the Philosophy of the Absurd (New York: 2002). Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |
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