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Rorty and the Prophetic
eBook - Jewish Engagements with a Secular Philosopher
ISBN/EAN: 9781498523011
Umbreit-Nr.: 2250209
Sprache:
Englisch
Umfang: 246 S.
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Einband:
Keine Angabe
Erschienen am 11.02.2021
Auflage: 1/2021
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Format: EPUB
DRM: Adobe DRM
- Zusatztext
- <p><span>The American neo-pragmatist philosopher Richard Rorty dismisses the public applicability of Jewish moral reasoning, because it is based on the will of God through divine revelation. As a self-described secular philosopher, it comes as no surprise that Rorty does not find public applicability within a divinely-ordered Jewish ethic. Rorty also rejects the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinass ethics, which is based upon the notion of infinite responsibility to the Face of the Other. In Rortys judgment, Levinass ethics is gawky, awkward, and unenlightening. From a Rortyan perspective, it seems that Jewish ethics simply cant win: either it is either too dependent on the will of God or over-emphasizes the human Other. This book responds to Rortys criticisms of Jewish ethics in three different ways: first, demonstrating agreements between Rorty and Jewish thinkers; second, offering reflective responses to Rortys critiques of Judaism on the questions of Messianism, prophecy, and the relationship between politics and theology; third, taking on Rortys seemingly unfair judgment that Levinass ethics is gawky, awkward, and unenlightening. While Rorty does not engage the prophetic tradition of Jewish thought in his essay, Glorious Hopes, Failed Prophecies, he dismisses the possibility for prophetic reasoning because of its other-worldliness and its emphasis on predicting the future. Rorty fails to attend to and recognize the complexity of prophetic reasoning, and this book presents the complexity of the prophetic within Judaism. Toward these ends and more, Brad Elliott Stone and Jacob L. Goodson offer this book to scholars who contribute to the Jewish academy, those within American Philosophy, and those who think Richard Rortys voice ought to remain in conversations about religion and conversations among the religious.</span></p><p></p>
- Kurztext
- <p><span>This book brings Jewish moral reasoning into conversation with Richard Rorty¿s secular neo-pragmatist philosophy, which oftentimes comes across as anti-religious. The result is a type of hope for the future concerning the relationship between Judaism and secularism.</span></p> <p></p>
- Autorenportrait
- <p><span>Jacob L. Goodson</span><span> is associate professor of philosophy at Southwestern College.</span></p><p></p><p><span>Brad Elliott Stone</span><span> is professor of philosophy at Loyola Marymount University.</span></p><p></p>