Index
academy
anti-intellectualism in
, 206, 239, 293
canons of philosophy in
, 195–197, 196n4
contemporary changes in nature of
, 313–315
fact-value divide in
, 247–248
fracture between Jewish philosophy and
, 30
humanities in
, 199, 207, 239, 247–248
hyperspecialization in
, 234–235, 288
identity politics in
, 321
interdisciplinary programs
, 26, 195–196, 198–200, 199n8, 206–207, 242, 288–290
interest in Jewish philosophy in Chinese
, 274–276
Jewish philosophy as European philosophy in
, 37
justification of hegemony
, 33
marginalization of theology in
, 237–238
meaning and boundaries of philosophy in
, 271
movement of Jewish philosophy from, to Jewish communities
, 5, 12–13, 79, 80–81, 85–86, 90, 92–96, 101, 239, 243–244, 299–300, 305
narrowness and isolation of philosophy departments
, 272–274
non-Jewish universities as prime producers of Jewish philosophy
, 14–15, 15n28
place for Jewish philosophy in
, 240–243
professionalization of Jewish philosophy within
, 14, 15, 22, 100–101
religious studies department as home of Jewish philosophy
, 34, 35
study of ethics in
, 277
value of study of Jewish philosophy to students
, 201–204
Academy of Jewish Philosophy
, 17, 69, 70
action theory
, 224–226
Adorno, Theodor W.
, 171, 174
After Virtue (MacIntyre)
, 230
Aḥaronim
, 325–326, 327
Akiba (Rabbi) and revelation
, 119, 120
Altmann, Alexander
, 42
altruism, limits of
, 226–228, 228n39
Amir, Yehoyada
, 83, 86, 87, 88
analytic philosophy
Shatz, David
action theory
, 224–226
articles critical of
, 214n15
contemporary arguments
, 213–215
contemporary religious philosophy and
, 24, 211–212
continental philosophy and
, 10–11, 209–210
early arguments
, 212–213
hairsplitting distinctions in language
, 211, 211n6
historical consciousness of
, 229–230
Jewish philosophy and tools of
, 298–299
Judaism as primarily religion of practice and
, 214–215
limits of altruism
, 227–229, 228n39
logical positivism and
, 211
moral responsibility and
, 218–221
prayer and
, 222–224
religiously committed Jewish philosophers’ contributions to
, 24
resurgence of
, 216
secular dominance
, 229
volitional attachments as constraints
, 166
anti-intellectualism
, 206, 239, 293
anti-Semitism
, 308, 320–321, 323
antitraditionalist school
, 55–56, 153, 153n6, 154, 156–164
Aristotle
Alexandrian reading of,
281–282
Maimonides and,
133
moral action and
, 279–280
rational knowledge
, 280n15
Ricoeur and
, 188
art and existentialism
, 136–137
Association for the Philosophy of Judaism (APJ)
, 214, 241
“As Thyself: The Limits of Altruism in Jewish Ethics” (Shatz)
, 227–229
Augustine
, 277–281
Austin, J. L.
, 211n6
authority
rationality and
, 158–164
social nature of
, 152–153, 155
Badatan, Costica
, 210–211
Baron, Salo W.
, 63
Batnitzky, Leora
, 256, 259
Beinart, Peter
, 307
Benbaji, Yitzhak
, 154, 155–156, 165, 166, 168
Biblical Interpretation in Ancient Israel (Fishbane)
, 139
BINA: Center for Jewish Identity and Hebrew Culture
, 16
Blanchot, Maurice
, 173–174, 182, 187–188
Bleich, J. David
, 51–52
Blumenthal, David R.
, 47, 207
Borowitz, Eugene
autonomous individual and
, 137
each individual’s search for meaning and
, 139
individual’s relationship with God
, 137–138
language game approach
, 140
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 45, 137–138, 140
Brafman, Yonatan Y.
, xi, 20–21, 98–114
Brandom, Robert
, 105, 155–156, 165–166, 167–168
Brody, Samuel Hayim, xi
, 26, 291–309
Brown, Peter
, 278–279
Buber, Martin
, 137
California Ethics Committee on stem cell research
, 125–126
Chaim of Brisk (Rabbi)
, 222–223, 224
Christianity and philosophy
Augustinian perspective
, 277–281
dominance of Christianity and
, 285–287
fact-value divide and
, 252–254
modernity and
, 279
problematics of
, 74
the will
, 278n10
Clark, Maudemarie
, 210
Clinton Health Care Task Force
, 123, 124–125, 127–128
Cogitata Metaphysica (Spinoza)
, 73
Cohen, Hermann
, 21, 135
Cohen, Leonard
, 191–192
communal rights, rise of interest in
, 62–64
communist ideology
, 63–64
consciousness and friendship
, 188–189
contemporary epistemology
, 145–148
continental philosophy
analytic philosophy and
, 10–11, 209–210
existentialism and
, 138
Jewish philosophy and
, 36
language of
, 75
Cooper, John M.
, 285–287
covenant theology
, 45
Crane, Jonathan K.
, 115
creative friendship
, 189–190
Creatively Undecided (Fisch)
, 155, 165–167
“Crisis Theology and the Jewish Community” (Borowitz)
, 45
critique model of Jewish philosophy
, 109–114
cultural reproduction
, 105–109
Damasio, Antonio
, 276
Davidson, Donald
, 225
deconstructionism
, 141, 142
Dennett, Daniel
, 273
denominational thinking
, 108, 113–114
dependence, ontological versus epistemic
, 219–221
Derrida, Jacques
, 141, 240
Descartes, René
, 73, 253, 277, 278n10, 281
Deutsch, Eliot
, 189–190
Dewey, John
, 261
Diamond, Jim
, 51
Diaspora Jewish communities
debate about State of Israel
, 304–305, 305n16
denominational thinking and
, 108
education and
, 111–112, 140, 239–240
engagement in political philosophy by
, 295
fragmented nature of
, 23, 43
importance of relationship in face-to-face
, 179–180
as the internal Other
, 293–294
modern mystical
, 182–185
oligarchic nature of
, 306, 306nn17–18
as part of “establishment,”
315, 321
as sonorous communities
, 171, 172, 173, 179–181
using music to extend boundaries of
, 181–182
Diaspora Jewish communities and Jewish philosophy
as context for
, 15, 16, 16n32, 20–21
disappearance of philosopher-rabbis
, 171–172
engaging, in Jewish philosophy
, 20–21
in France
, 10n19
German Jewry and
, 324, 325
impact of Jewish philosophy on
, 15, 26, 87–92, 95–97, 96n30, 122–128
interpretation and critique of, by Jewish philosophy
, 110–111
movement of Jewish philosophy from academy to
, 5, 12–13, 79, 80–81, 85–86, 90, 92–96, 101, 239, 243–244, 299–300, 305
as natural social base for Jewish philosophy
, 101
need to cultivate interest in Jewish philosophy
, 243–244
preservation of, with Jewish philosophy
, 105–109
professionalization of Jewish philosophy and
, 100–101
Dignity of Difference, The (Sacks)
, 43–44, 44n7
Divine Command Ethics: Jewish and Christian Perspectives (Michael Harris)
, 219–221
divine command theory
, 220–221
Dobbs-Weinstein, Idit
, 278n10
Dorff, Elliot N.
, xi, 21, 45–46, 115–129
education
academy
as basis of religious experience
, 140
Jewish commitment to
, 239–240
use of media formats outside of academic
, 111–112
of women
, 205
Efron, Noah
, 165, 167
“Eliezer Schweid: An Intellectual Portrait” (Levin)
, 43
embryonic stem cell research, religious perspectives on
, 125–126, 126n18
Enlightenment
, 134–135, 249, 254–255
epistemic dependence
, 219–221
essentialism
, 255, 321
ethics
altruism
, 227–229, 228n39
autonomous individual and
, 137
as constrained by classical sources
, 46
as elemental
, 21, 46–47, 135–136, 209
fact-value divide and
, 251
God and
, 219–221, 298
pull and push of
, 209
religion as requiring suspension of
, 136
study of, in academy
, 277
ethnic consciousness, rise of
, 62–64
Euthyphro dilemma
, 219–221
existentialism
, 136–139, 140
Expanding the Palace of Torah (Ross)
, 54–55
Experience of God and the Rationality of Religious Belief (Gellman)
, 213
fact-value divide
described
, 248
humanities study and
, 247–248
negative consequences of adoption of
, 263–265
origins
, 25, 248, 248n3, 252–254
philosophy’s recognition of immanent limits of scientific knowledge
, 260
rabbinic thinking and
, 265–270, 266n33, 267nn34–35, 268n36
responses to
, 25, 250–251, 253, 255n21, 255–265
unknowability/unintelligibility of theological and ethical claims
, 251
wedding between objectivity and subjectivity in inquiry and
, 266–267
falasifa
, 282, 283
Ferreira, M. Jamie
, 168–169
Fisch, Menachem
antitraditionalist school of thought and
, 22–23, 153, 153n6, 154, 156–157, 164
on foundational disagreements in Judaism
, 268–269
on foundational theologies at heart of Jewish canon
, 157–158
on Frankfurt
, 168
intractability of cultural battles
, 166
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 55–56, 153
pragmatism and
, 154–159
rabbinic thinking as post–fact-value form of Jewish philosophical thinking
, 265, 269–270
resolution of issues of cultural politics
, 165–167
on two books metaphor
, 252–253
Yavneh cycle and
, 158–160
Fishbane, Michael
, 52, 138–139
Fisher, Cass
, xi–xii, 231–246
Fleg, Edmond
, 10n19
Fons Vitae (Ibn Gabirol)
, 74
Ford Foundation
, 277
Foster, Daniel
, 307n21
Frank, Daniel
, 213–215
Frankfurt, Harry
formation of volitional attachments as not rational
, 168
free will and
, 217
resurgence of analytic philosophy
, 216
volitional attachments as constraints
, 166
Franks, Paul W.
, 57–58, 318
free will
, 216–218, 260–261, 278n10, 278–281
friendship theory
bridge between transcendent and immanent yearnings
, 187–188
creative type of Deutsch
, 189–190
divine and
, 185
emotional typology
, 186–187
moral typology
, 187
philosophic categories of Ricoeur
, 188–190
typologies of Kant
, 186–187
Future Tense (Sacks)
, 44n7
Fu Youde
, 275
Garb, Jonathan
, 48, 172
Garfield, Jay L.
, 36–37, 272
Gellman, Jerome Yehudah
, 212, 213
gender and Jewish philosophy
, 176n22, 176–177
“Gettier cases,”
56, 56n54
Glazer, Aubrey L.
, xii, 23, 171–192
God
of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob versus the God of philosophers
, 132, 296n10, 296–297
distinction between Torah and, in Judaism
, 144–145
Enlightenment and
, 134–135
ethics and
, 219–221, 298
as fallible
, 157
free will and
, 216–218
halakhah as way to know
, 327
independent existence of
, 244, 245
as irreducible to human thought and natural world
, 145
Judaism as self-validating system legitimated by
, 140
kabbalistic doctrine of the identity of Being and
, 54
language game metaphor and
, 141
Maimonides as benchmark for all Jewish thinking about
, 133–134
as perfect being
, 73, 95–96
pluralism and
, 118–119, 122
relationship between, and morality in Judaism
, 218–221, 254, 258
Sabbath as existential freedom linking humanity to
, 67
understanding message of
, 119–121
visual form of, in Kabbalah
, 142
God’s Kindness Has Overwhelmed Us (Gellman)
, 213
Goldberg, J. J.
, 237n9
Goldman, Alvin
, 225
Goodman, Lenn E.
, xii, 48–49, 61–76, 134, 147
Green, Arthur
, 53–54, 107, 138, 139
Grisez, Germain
, 44
The Guide of the Perplexed (Maimonides)
, 74, 83–84
Guide of the Perplexed of the Time (Krochmal)
, 82, 85, 86, 87–88, 89–90, 92
guru phenomenon
, 72–73
Gutting, Gary
, 230
Habermas, Jürgen
, 110
habits and worldview
, 261–262
Hadot, Pierre
, 285
halakhah
Aḥaronim and
, 325–326, 327
analytic philosophy and
, 222–229
ethics in Judaism as closer to, than theology
, 46
House of Shammai versus House of Hillel
, 55–56
Jewish philosophy as branch of
, 52
unrevisability of
, 267nn34–35, 267–268
Halakhic Man (Soloveitchik)
, 106
Halevi, Judah
, 73, 74, 296n10
“halo effect,”
227–228
Harris, Michael
, 219–221
Harris, Robert A.
, 249
Harrison, Peter
, 25, 252
Harvey, Warren Zev
, xii, 41–59
Hayes, Christine
, 161
Hazony, Yoram
, 15n28, 69, 70
Hegel, W. F.
, 105, 261, 263
Heidegger
, 141–142
hermeneutics
, 139–140, 143–144
Heschel, Abraham Joshua
, 54, 138, 247
“Hierarchical Theories of Freedom and the Hardening of Hearts” (Shatz)
, 216–218
history
descriptive philosophy
, 296, 296n7
God of Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob versus the God of philosophers
, 132, 296n10, 296–297
levels of recursive weirdness
, 297–298, 299, 300
role of, in Jewish philosophy
, 38, 70–71
Hollinger, David
, 211
Hughes, Aaron W.
, 29–39
constructive nature of Jewish philosophy
, 318
constructive versus descriptive philosophy
, 296n7
inaccessibility of Jewish philosophy to Jewish communities
, 79
interdisciplinary studies in academy
, 198–199
on Jewish studies
, 319
on Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 271, 291, 299–300
on tools of analytic philosophy and Jewish philosophy
, 298, 299
on Wolfson
, 50
works
, xii–xiii, 3, 4–5, 195, 198–199
human knowledge, limitations of
, 118–119, 120–121
Human Nature and Conduct (Dewey)
, 261
Hume, David
, 249
Ibn Gabirol, Solomon
, 74
Idel, Moshe
, 47–48, 172
identity politics
in academy
, 321
Jews as part of “establishment” and
, 315
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 27, 316–317
ideology model of Jewish philosophy
, 105–109, 112, 113
“If Philosophy Won’t Diversify, Let’s Call It What It Really Is” (Garfield and Van Norden)
, 36–37
“In Defense of ‘The West’” (Foster)
, 307n21
intention and prayer
, 222–224
Irigaray, Luce
, 178, 179
Ishmael (Rabbi)
, 119
Israel
debate in Diaspora Jewish communities about
, 304–305, 305n16
Jewish philosophy in
, 15–16, 26, 42–43
oligarchic nature of
, 306, 306nn17–18
rise of anti-liberal populist nationalism and
, 308
Israel, Jonathan
, 248n3, 249
Jankélévitch, Vladimir
, 10n19
Jerusalem (Mendelssohn)
, 205, 206
Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism (Mendelssohn)
, 236–237
Jewish geography
, 69
Jewish identity
commitment to, in post-Holocaust world
, 320
interest in Jewish philosophy and
, 319–320
link with specific ideology
, 108–109
questionable status in modern world of
, 320–321
self-questioning and
, 326–327
“Jewish Philosophical Theology Project,”
15n28
Jewish philosophy
Diaspora Jewish communities and Jewish philosophy
advice for embarking on practice of
, 71–76
American Jewish seminaries and
, 247
biographical nature of
, 11–12, 11n22
as branch of halakhah
, 52
categorization in canons of
, 197
as collision of particularistic demands and universal concerns
, 6
communication issues
, 233–239, 242–243, 245–246
constructive versus descriptive
, 295–296, 296n7
constructive versus reflective
, 318
contemporary interest in
, 25
as continually changing
, 58
as critique model
, 109–114
defining
, 5n10, 6, 41, 100, 101–102
embryonic stem cell research and
, 125–126, 126n18
engagement with dialectics of particular and universal
, 12
as European philosophy
, 37
factors in renaissance of
, 63–64
as field rather than discipline
, 234
fragility of
, 153, 164
funding
, 15n28, 24
gender and
, 176n22, 176–177
as ideology model
, 105–109, 112, 113
impact of technology
, 17–18
institutional settings of
, 14–17, 16n32
Jewish identity and interest in
, 319–320
Jewish Question and
, 317–318, 322
languages of
, 41
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers as forcing reconception of
, 231
matter and form of
, 100
methodology
, 10–11
movement of, from academy to Jewish communities
, 5, 12–13, 79, 80–81, 85–86, 90, 92–96, 101, 239, 243–244, 299–300, 305
need to return to rationalism
, 21, 147–148
negative perceptions about
, 4, 5
as not really philosophy
, 36
as paradoxical philosophy
, 41
pivotal events as impetus for subjects studied
, 99
postmodernism and
, 142, 231–232
practices of Judaism generate problems addressed by
, 89–91
questions about nature of
, 5–6
return to logos
, 144
robustness of
, 4
role of history of, to contemporary
, 38, 70–71
role of skepticism
, 318–319, 327
as sine qua non to Jewish existence
, 18
as sociocultural and religious force
, 7–8, 8n17
as stream of classical philosophy
, 271–272
study of, as producing more sophisticated version of Judaism
, 91
tension with Judaism
, 84–85, 132–134
theocentric bias of modern
, 157
as therapy model
, 102–105
tools of analytic philosophy and
, 298–299
tradition of text study as model
, 139
as universalizing, rationalizing
, 32–33
use of educational media
, 111–112
writing in a Jewish way
, 300–302
“Jewish Philosophy: An Obituary” (Mendes-Flohr)
, 296
Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century: Personal Reflections (Tirosh-Samuelson and Hughes)
, 3, 298
Jewish Philosophy Past and Present, Contemporary Responses to Classical Sources (Frank and Segal)
, 213–215, 214n15
Jewish Question
Aḥaronim and
, 325–326, 327
anti-Semitism as stimulus for
, 320–321, 323
elements
, 311–312
German Jewry and
, 324, 327
Jewish philosophy no longer addressing
, 317–318
need to reflect on, again
, 322
reopening of
, 27, 327–328
Jewish studies programs
, 63, 79
Jewish “thinking,”
256, 258–259
John Templeton Foundation
, 15n28
Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy
, 235, 236
Judaism
absence of revealed truths in
, 236–237
conceptually and morally consistent reworking of ideas and institutions
, 66–67
covenant as basis of
, 45
as “cultural-linguistic” system
, 140, 141
cultural translation of liturgical music and
, 180–182
distinction between Torah and God
, 144–145
essential theological principles of
, 147–148
ethics as closer to halakhah than theology
, 46
ethics as elemental
, 21, 46–47, 135–136, 209
existentialism and
, 137, 138
giving more space to women in
, 54–55
Jewish philosophy and reason as basis of
, 32–33
marginalization of theology in academy
, 238
in modernity as inherently vulnerable
, 326
pluralism and
, 43, 118
practices of, generate problems philosophy addresses
, 89–91
as primarily religion of images and practice not belief
, 67, 214–215, 237, 237n9
pursuit of ideal and
, 51
rabbinic theology
, 244–245
relationship between God and morality
, 218–221
as self-validating system legitimated by God
, 140
study of philosophy as producing more sophisticated version of
, 91
survival of, as story of repeated reinvention within theme
, 64–66
tension with Jewish philosophy
, 84–85, 132–134
“Judaism and the Religious Crisis of Modern Science” (Fisch)
, 252, 265
“Judaism Is Alive and Well, Just Evolving” (Goldberg)
, 237n9
Kabbalah
attempt to systematize Zohar
, 42n3
doctrine of identity of Being and God
, 54
as embodiment of forces of obscurantism
, 32
as Spinoza plus mystery
, 54
visual form of God
, 142
Kant, Immanuel
, 134, 135–136, 186–187
Kaplan, Mordecai
, 247
Karinthy, Frigyes
, 69
Katz, Claire E.
, xiii, 24, 195–208
Kavka, Martin
, xiii, 22, 151–169
Kellison, Rosemary
, 153–154
Kellner, Menachem
, 50–51, 134
Kepnes, Steven
, xiii, 21, 131–150
Kierkegaard, Søren
, 136
Kraemer, Joel
, 283
Krochmal, Nachman
background of
, 81, 83
Maimonides and
, 83, 86
mode of inquiry for studying philosophy and maintaining faith
, 84–85
necessity of philosophical studies
, 87–92
relevance of Jewish philosophy to Jewish communal life
, 20, 85–86, 93–94
Kuzari (Halevi)
, 74
language game approach to philosophy
, 140–141
languages of Jewish philosophy
, 41
Lebens, Samuel
, 241
Leibowitz, Yeshayahu
, 111
Levin, Leonard
, 43
Levinas, Emmanuel
, 10n19, 73, 228n39, 240
“Levinas and Judaism” (Putnam)
, 228n39
Lewinsohn, Jed
, 225–226
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
as addressing humanities
, 207–208
authority structure of
, 22
Blumenthal
, 47
Borowitz
, 45, 137–138, 140
contents
, 6–7, 8, 9–11, 13, 82, 175–177, 232–233, 236
defining Jewish philosophy
, 41
Dorff
, 45–46
female Jewish philosophers and
, 176, 176n22
Fisch
, 55–56, 153
Fishbane
, 138–139
as forcing reconception of Jewish philosophy
, 231
format
, 8–9
genesis and development of
, 3–4, 29–30
Goodman
, 48–49, 134
Green
, 53–54, 138
Idel
, 47–48
identity politics and
, 27, 316–317
integration of analytic and Jewish philosophy in
, 212, 213n10
Kellner
, 50–51, 134
Morgan
, 57–58
notion of “authorities” and
, 152–153, 155
Novak
, 44–45
Plaskow
, 46–47
purpose
, 5, 39, 80, 151–152, 271, 272, 299–300
Ross
, 54–55, 140–141
Sacks
, 43–44
Sagi
, 49–50, 137, 141
Samuelson
, 53
Schweid
, 42–43
Shatz
, 56–57
as testament to Jewish rationalism
, 31
Wolfson
, 50, 138, 141–142
Liebes, Yehuda
, 42n3
“Links” (Karinthy)
, 69
Locke, John
, 134–135
logical positivism
academy and
, 196n4
analytic philosophy and
, 211
eclipse of
, 61–62
fact-value divide and
, 248–249
logocentrism
, 141
“lonely Jew,”
43
“Lonely Jew and Judaism, The” (Schweid)
, 43
Longstaff, Patricia Hirl
, 288
MacIntyre, Alasdair
, 230
Maimonides, Moses
as benchmark for all Jewish thinking about God
, 133–134
genres written in by
, 74
influence on Krochmal
, 83, 86
influence on Spinoza
, 283
integration of Judaism and philosophy
, 133–134
intellectualist interpretation of moral agency
, 282–283
as intellectual mystic
, 47
laws of prayer
, 222
on purpose of The Guide of the Perplexed
, 83–84
rational knowledge
, 280n15
scientific naturalism
, 277
Making It Explicit (Brandom)
, 167–168
Mayse, Ariel Evan
, 54
medieval Jewish philosophy
, 32n5
“Menachem Kellner: An Intellectual Portrait” (Diamond)
, 51
Mendelssohn, Moses
absence of revealed truths in Judaism
, 236–237
on Jewish concepts/doctrines
, 152–153
limits on state power
, 205, 206
Mendes-Flohr, Paul
, 26, 296, 299, 308
Metaphysic of Morals (Kant)
, 186–187
“Michael Fishbane: An Intellectual Portrait” (Shonkoff)
, 52, 139
“Michael Morgan: An Intellectual Portrait” (Franks)
, 57–58
midrash, normative unity and theistic continuity of
, 66
Misemer, Sarah
, 201
Mittleman, Alan
, 63
modernity
Christian notion of human nature and
, 279
equated with secularity
, 64
giving up on
, 292–293
inherent vulnerability of Judaism in
, 326
Kant and
, 135–136
Modern Judaism
, 235, 236
“Modern Orthodoxy and the Challenge of Feminism” (Ross)
, 207–208
morality/moral agency
Alexandrian reading of Aristotle and
, 282
as form of character development
, 279
free will
, 216–218, 260–261, 278n10, 278–281
intellectualist interpretation of Maimonides
, 282–283
Judaism and
, 218–221
origin of
, 277, 278
rationality and
, 283
relationship between God and, in Judaism
, 218–221, 254, 258
revelation as acknowledgment of God as unique source of
, 254, 258
“more,” the religious/sacred
, 250–251, 253
Morgan, Michael
, 57–58
Morgenbesser, Sidney
, 57
“Moshe Idel: An Intellectual Portrait” (Garb)
, 48
music
sonorous communities
creation of zones between temporalities
, 174–175
cultural translation of liturgical
, 180–182
dialectic of musical thinking
, 171, 173–174
efficacy of, as collective prayer
, 171
unhappy consciousness and
, 191–192
using, to extend boundaries of faith communities
, 181–182
mysticism
existentialism and
, 137
friendship and
, 190–191
Maimonides and
, 47
modern Jewish communities and
, 182–185
reevaluation of work of Scholem
, 48
relationship to poetry and philosophy
, 50
Nahme, Paul E.
, xiii–xiv, 26–27, 311–328
National Human Resources Protections Advisory Commission (NHRPAC)
, 126–127
Natural History of Religion (Hume)
, 249
natural right
, 254
Neuhaus, Richard John
, 115
neurophilosophy
, 25
New Directions in Jewish Philosophy (Hughes and Wolfson)
, 4–5
Nicomachean Ethics (Aristotle)
, 282
Nietzsche, Friedrich
, 173
non-Jewish communities and Jewish philosophy
, 80–81
“Norbert M. Samuelson: An Intellectual Portrait” (Simon)
, 53
Novak, David
, 44–45, 265–268, 266n33, 267nn34–35
Nozick, Robert
, 209
obscurantism, Kabbalah as embodiment of forces of
, 32
“On Levinas and Judaism” (Putnam)
, 209
ontological dependence
, 219–221
Panksepp, Jaak
, 276
Pascal
, 296, 297
Pedaya, Haviva
, 176n22
Peirce, Charles Sanders
, 154, 163
peoplehood, as prejudice/quasi-racism
, 143
“Perpetual Covenant of Jewish Learning, The” (Fisch)
, 153, 153n6
phenomenology
, 139–140, 143
Phenomenology (Hegel)
, 261, 263
philosopher-rabbis
, 22–23, 171–172
Philosophical Explanations (Nozick)
, 209
Philosophical Investigations (Wittgenstein)
, 102–103
philosophy
analytic philosophy
argumentation and
, 49, 57
border with theology
, 301–302
categorization in canons of
, 195–197, 196n4
diverse genres of
, 74
end of
, 142–143
Enlightenment and
, 134–135
epistemological and practical goals of
, 131–132
ethnic-based rationalities and
, 36
existentialism
, 136–139, 140
isolation from life
, 274, 275
as language game
, 140–141
meaning and boundaries of, in academy
, 271
as morally limited
, 255n21, 255–256
political, versus political science
, 256–258, 257n24
portrayal of, as neutral and universal
, 195, 198–199, 205
as possessing absolute truth
, 254, 293
post-structuralism
, 141–142
recognition of immanent limits of scientific knowledge
, 260
relationship to poetry and mysticism
, 50
relationship to religion and revelation
, 52
of religion
, 34, 35
as rival to Judaism
, 132
training in, and participation in public policy debates
, 21, 122–128
truth as central issue of
, 148
as way of life
, 11, 11n22
Philosophy and Law (Strauss)
, 254–257, 255n21
“Philosophy in Halakha: the Case of Intentional Action” (Lewinsohn)
, 225–226
Pines, Shlomo
, 48, 282
Plantinga, Alvin
, 212, 213
Plaskow, Judith
, 46–47
pluralism
basis for belief in
, 118–119
in debate
, 119–121
difficulties of
, 122
fragmented communities within Judaism and
, 43
language game approach and
, 140
in practice
, 121–122
using music to extend boundaries of faith communities
, 181–182
poetry, relationship to mysticism and philosophy
, 50
political philosophy versus political science
, 256–258, 257n24
politics, political debates, and public policy
about State of Israel
, 304
impact of Jewish philosophy on
, 15–16, 16n32
Jewish philosophy’s need to enter
, 26
oligarchic natures of US and Israel
, 306, 306nn17–18
politics of identity
, 308n23, 308–309
practical wisdom and
, 257–258
religion in public discussion of
, 115–117, 122
rise in anti-liberal populist nationalism and
, 306–308, 307n21, 323
as site of truth
, 293
toleration of differences
, 122–123
training in philosophy and participation in
, 21, 122–128
Popper, Karl
, 274
Posen Foundation
, 16
positivism, eclipse of
, 61–62
postmodernism
, 142, 231–232
post-structuralism
, 141–142
practical wisdom
, 257
pragmatism
, 154–159
prayer and intention
, 222–224
priority of practice theory
, 215
public policy
.
politics, political debates, and public policy
Putnam, Hilary
, 103, 209–210, 228n39, 248–249
rabbinic thinking
, 265–270, 266n33, 267nn34–35, 268n36
rabbi/philosophers
, 22–23, 171–172
Radical Enlightenment: Philosophy and the Making of Modernity 1650–1750 (Israel)
, 248n3, 249
Rashkover, Randi
, xiv, 25, 247–270
rationalism
as basis for religious belief
, 45, 57n58
Enlightenment and
, 134–135
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers as testament to Jewish
, 31
need for Jewish philosophy to return to
, 21, 147–148
Spinoza and
, 135
rationality
analytic philosophy
authority and
, 158–164
in classical Greek philosophy
, 286
as game of “deontic scorekeeping,”
155, 165–167
as inherent in all
, 280n15
intersubjective discourse as requirement of
, 156
moral agency and
, 283
philosophy and ethnic-based
, 36
priority of practice theory and
, 215
religious experience and
, 212–213
volitional attachments and
, 166, 168
Rational Rabbis (Fisch)
, 56–57, 153, 153n6, 156, 158–159
Ravven, Heidi M.
, xiv, 25, 271–290
“Reflections” (Bleich)
, 52
Reichmuth, Stefan
, 186
religion
claims of truth
, 35
as companion to “practical reason,”
135
education and
, 140
modern study of
, 249–250
in public political debates and public policy
, 115–117, 122
relationship of philosophy and revelation to
, 52, 212
as requiring suspension of ethics
, 136
social scientific reduction of religion
, 248–250
“Religious Communities, Secular Societies, and Sexuality: One Jewish Opinion” (Novak)
, 267n35
Rethinking Jewish Philosophy: Beyond Particularism and Universalism (Hughes)
, 195, 198–199
revelation
debate about extent and nature of
, 119–120
defining
, 55
encounter to explain experience of
, 137
in exegesis
, 139
God as unique source of morality and
, 254, 258
modern religious experience and belief in
, 212
philosophy’s inability to disprove or prove
, 255n21, 255–256
relationship to religion and philosophy
, 52, 212
traditions based on
, 258
Revelation and the God of Israel (Samuelson)
, 212
Ricoeur, Paul
, 188–190
“Role of Dogma in Judaism, The” (Novak)
, 266n33
Rorty, Richard
, 107–108, 296–297
Rosenzweig, Franz
encounter to explain experience of revelation
, 137
Fisher on
, 232
primal irreducible elements
, 145
Putnam’s interpretation of
, 103
theological realism and
, 245
“Rosenzweig and Wittgenstein” (Putnam)
, 103
Ross, Tamar
, 54–55, 140–141, 207
Rudolph, Otto
, 250
Saadia
, 68
Sabbath, as sign of freedom
, 67
Sacks, Elias R.
, xiv, 20, 79–97
Sacks, Jonathan
, 43–44, 107
Sagi, Avi
, 49–50, 137, 141
Salanter, Yisrael
, 228n39
Samuelson, Norbert M.
epistemological scale from belief to knowledge
, 146
essential theological principles of Judaism
, 147–148
influence of
, 69
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 3, 53
on Maimonides’ synthesis of Judaism and philosophy
, 133
revelation and rationality
, 212
Schleiermacher, Friedrich
, 250
Scholem, Gershom
, 48
Schweid, Eliezer
, 13, 42–43
“Science, Religion, and Rationality: A Neo-Hegelian Approach” (Fisch)
, 154–155, 156, 157, 165
“Science as Vocation” (Weber)
, 25
sciences
fact-value divide
classification in
, 291–292
scientific worldview
, 146–147
Scriptural Reasoning
, 303
secularity, equation with modernity of
, 64
Segal, Aaron
, 213–215
self-sacrifice
, 227–228
Shalom Hartman Institute
, 16
Shame and Necessity (Williams)
, 230
Shatz, David
extreme altruism
, 227–229, 228n39
free will and
, 216–218
Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 56–57
overview of
, 216
Shonkoff, Sam Berrin
, 52, 139
Sidorsky, David
, 45
Simon, Jules
, 53
Smithsonian Museum of Natural History Broader Social Impacts Committee
, 127
Soloveitchik, Joseph B.
background
, 247
existentialism and
, 138
Jewish philosophy as reserver of Jewish culture
, 106, 107
prayer and intention
, 223–224
Shatz on
, 57
sonorous communities
creation of
, 172, 179–181
defining
, 171
history
, 173
Speculum of the Other Woman (Irigaray)
, 178
Spinoza, Baruch
biological conception of human nature
, 284
as example of what Jewish philosophy can be and do
, 68–69
fact-value divide and
, 248n3
goal of
, 135
influence of Descartes on
, 73, 277
influence of Maimonides on
, 277, 283
materialism and
, 278n10
as philosopher whose works should be lived
, 287
as “proto-biologist,”
276–277
Star of Redemption (Rosenzweig)
, 145
Strauss, Leo
, 25, 254–260, 255n21, 256n24, 293
Stump, Eleonore
, 211n6, 214n15, 216–218
Substance and Subject
, 258–259, 263, 264
supernaturalism
, 277
Sztuden, Alex
, xiv–xv, 26, 209–230
Taylor, Charles
, 181
technology
, 17–18, 111–112, 149
theological realism
, 21, 144–145, 245
theology
agenda of
, 266n33
border with philosophy
, 301–302
covenant
, 45
essential principles of Judaism and
, 147–148
ethics as closer to halakhah than
, 46
fact-value divide and
, 251
foundational, at heart of Jewish canon
, 157–158
marginalization of, in academy
, 237–238
need for journals of
, 236–238
rabbinic
, 244–245
therapy model of Jewish philosophy
, 102–105
Through a Speculum that Shines (Wolfson)
, 142
Through Vegetal Being (Irigaray)
, 178
Tiberean Hasidism and aliyah of 1777
, 182–185
Tikvah Fund
, 15n28
“Time, Creation, and the Mirror of Narcissus” (Goodman)
, 147
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava
, 3–27
constructive nature of Jewish philosophy
, 318
constructive versus descriptive philosophy
, 296n7
definition of Jewish philosophy
, 100
inaccessibility of Jewish philosophy to Jewish communities
, 79
on Library of Contemporary Jewish Philosophers
, 271, 291, 299–300
on tools of analytic philosophy and Jewish philosophy
, 298, 299
works
, xv
Tishby, Isaiah
, 42n3
tradition versus traditionalism
, 153–154
transcendence
, 148–149, 187–188
truth
absence of revealed, in Judaism
, 236–237
in analytic philosophy
, 298
as central issue of philosophy
, 148
language game approach and
, 141
Maimonides and
, 133
phenomenology and
, 139–140
philosophy as possessing absolute
, 254, 293
politics and
, 293
religious claims of
, 35
Sacks and
, 43–44, 44n7
science and
, 248n3
subjectivity as path to
, 136
vulgarization and trivialization of, by untrammeled nationalism
, 208–209
two books metaphor
, 252–253
Two Models of Jewish Philosophy (Rynhold)
, 215
Understanding the Sick and the Healthy (Rosenzweig)
, 103
unhappy consciousness
, 191n88, 191–192
Vajda, Georges
, 47
values
, 254
fact-value divide
Van Norden, Bryan W.
, 36–37, 272
vegetal thinking
, 178–179
View from Within: Normativity and the Limits of Self Criticism, The (Fisch and Benbaji)
, 154, 155–156, 165–167, 168
Vindication of the Rights of Women, The (Wollstonecraft)
, 205
voluntarism
, 279–280, 281
Weber, Max
, 25
Western philosophy
.
philosophy
Wettstein, Howard
, 214–215
What Is Ancient Philosophy? (Hadot)
, 285
Williams, Bernard
, 230
Wise, Isaac Meyer
, 247
Wissenschaft des Judentums movement
, 25, 250, 256
Wittgenstein, Ludwig
, 102–103, 140–141
Wolfson, Elliot R.
, 4–5, 50, 138, 141–142
Wolfson, Harry
, 32n5
Wollstonecraft, Mary
, 205
women
education of
, 205
giving more space in Judaism to
, 54–55
Jewish philosophy and
, 176n22, 176–177
language game approach and
, 141
Worship of the Heart (Soloveitchik)
, 223–224
Yavneh cycle
, 158–160
Zevit, Ziony
, 237–238
Zohar, attempt to systematize
, 42n3