The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild
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The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild
（SUNY series in Jewish philosophy）
State University of New York Press, c1990
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Bibliography: p. 379-390
Includes index
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Description
Steven Schwarzschild—rabbi, socialist, pacifist, theologian, and philosopher—is both the last of the major medieval Jewish philosophers and the most modern. He is in the tradition of the Jewish thinking that began with Sa'adia Gaon and reached its highest expression in Maimonides. These thinkers believed that Judaism must confront some systematic view of the universe. Sa'adia did this with Kalam, ibn Gabirol with Neo-Platonism, and Maimonides with Aristotelianism. Schwarzschild does it with Neo-Kantianism. From this confrontation, Schwarzschild derives important insights into the nature and structure of contemporary Judaism and Jewish existence in the post-modern world.
Menachem Kellner brings together thirteen of Schwarzschild's Jewish (as opposed to straightforwardly philosophical) writings. Included are important discussions of messianism, death of God theology, ethics, aesthetics, and politics. The common concerns underlying these essays are Neo-Kantian idealism and messianism. In an afterword written especially for this book, Schwarzschild shows that these two foci are really one.
In an introductory essay, Menachem Kellner explores the philosophic underpinning of Schwarzschild's non-Marxist socialism, pacifism, and messianism; and of his critiques of Christianity, political conservatism, and Zionism.
Table of Contents
Foreword by Kenneth R. Seeskin
Acknowledgements
Introduction by Menachem Kellner
1. The Personal Messiah - Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine
2. Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation? (A Passage in Dsipute between Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Hermann Cohen) A Contribution to a Jewish View of Natural Law
3. The Lure of Immanence - The Crisis in Contemporary Religious Thought
4. On the Theology of Jewish Survival
5. A Note on the Nature of Ideal Society - A Rabbinic Study
6. The Legal Foundation of Jewish Aesthetics
7. The Question of Jewish Ethics Today
8. Moral Radicalism and "Middlingness" in the Ethics of Maimonides
9. Jean-Paul Sartre as Jew
10. A Critique of Martin Buber's Political Philosophy - An Affectionate Reappraisal
11. On Jewish Eschatology
12. Modern Jewish Philosophy
13. Shekhinah and Eschatology
Afterword
Notes
Bibliography of the Writings of Steven S. Schwarzschild
Index
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