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Memory of the West : the contemporaneity of forgotten Jewish thinkers

Title: Memory of the West : the contemporaneity of forgotten Jewish thinkers / Reyes Mate ; translated from the Spanish by Anne Day Dewey ; edited by John R. Welch.
Author: Mate, Reyes.
Publication: Amsterdam ; New York : Rodopi, 2004.

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Description

viii, 206 pages : illustrations; 22 cm.

Series Statement

Value inquiry book series, 0929-8436 ; v. 163. Philosophy in Spain

Uniform Title

Memoria de Occidente. English
Value inquiry book series ; v. 163.
Value inquiry book series. Philosophy in Spain

Alternative Title

Memoria de Occidente.

Subject

Genre/Form

History.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. [191]-198) and index.

Contents

1 The Death of Reason, the End of History, and the Decline of Philosophy? Approaching the Present 15 -- 1 The Death of Reason? 18 -- A The Postmodern Sensibility 18 -- B Weber's Introduction to Essays on the Sociology of Religion 20 -- C Why Reason Is Scientific in the West 25 -- D The Destiny of Western Rationality 29 -- E Between Resignation and Nostalgia 31 -- 2 The End of History? 33 -- 3 The Decline of Philosophy? 41 -- 4 Modernity Refers Back to Religion and the Enlightenment. The Crisis of Philosophy, of History, of Reason 51 -- 2 The Jewish Question 55 -- 1 Sacrificium Intellectus 56 -- A There Is No Reason but Enlightened Reason 59 -- B Outside History 61 -- C Assimilation 63 -- 2 Sacrificium Historiae Sive Traditionis 65 -- 3 Sacrificium Essentiae 69 -- 3 The Theoretical Strategy of Judaism 75 -- 1 A Contemporary View of the Crisis of Modernity 75 -- 2 The Jewish Obligation to Think 76 -- 3 Two "Nathans," Each the Product of a Specific Tradition and Rationality 78 -- A Western Rationality, an Idealist Conception of Philosophy 78 -- B The Critique of Western Idealism 81 -- 4 A Philosophy of Experience 107 -- 1 To Be Jewish and in History 107 -- 2 From Marginality to Universality 111 -- 3 The Plebeian Morality of the Pariah-People 114 -- 4 The Analytic Affinity between Weber and Rosenzweig 115 -- 5 Toward a New Thought 116 -- A Experience without Time 117 -- B Experience with Time 118 -- 6 Two Conceptions of Time 122 -- 7 From Solitude to Life 124 -- 8 Revelation as the De-Sacralization of the World 126 -- A Revelation Is "Orientation" 126 -- B Ritual and Political Interpretation of the Revelatory Capability of Language 128 -- 5 Toward an Ethic of Compassion 143 -- 1 The Principle of Compassion 143 -- A Hermann Cohen's Position 143 -- B Ethics and Religion 144 -- C The Discovery of the Individual 146 -- D Compassion in Modern Philosophy 147 -- 2 Responsibility and Freedom 165 -- A A Necessary Relation 165 -- B The Ambiguity of the Term "Responsibility" 166 -- C The Irruption of the Principle of Responsibility 174 -- D The Heuristic of Fear 175 -- E Responsibility: From Project to Task 177.

ISBN

9042018232
9789042018235

LCCN

2005530850

OCLC

ocm57285794
57285794
SCSB-9475180

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library