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Reason and Revelation before Historicism : Strauss and Fackenheim / Sharon Jo Portnoff.

By: Material type: TextTextPublisher: Toronto : University of Toronto Press, [2016]Copyright date: ©2011Description: 1 online resource (368 p.)Content type:
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  • 9781442643079
  • 9781442695382
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 210 23
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Background and Introduction -- 2. Strauss’s Formulation of the Relationship between Reason and Revelation in Modern Thought and His Rejection of a Practical Synthesis -- 3. Fackenheim’s Formulation of the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology in Modern Thought -- 4. The Problem of Historicism -- 5. Reason and Revelation: Jewish Thought after Strauss and Fackenheim -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index
Summary: Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence - Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim, an important post-Holocaust Jewish theologian. There has been little consensus, however, on the definitive meaning of their work.Reason and Revelation before Historicism, the first full-length comparison of Strauss and Fackenheim,places the informal teacher and student in conversation alongside sections of their analyses of notable thinkers. Sharon Portnoff suggests that both saw historicism as the nexus of the intersection and tension between philosophy and religion and raised the possibility of the persistence of the permanent in the modern world. Portnoff illuminates our understanding of Strauss's relationship with Judaism, Fackenheim's oft-overshadowed great philosophical depth, and the function and character of Jewish thought in a secular, post-Holocaust world.

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- 1. Background and Introduction -- 2. Strauss’s Formulation of the Relationship between Reason and Revelation in Modern Thought and His Rejection of a Practical Synthesis -- 3. Fackenheim’s Formulation of the Relationship between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology in Modern Thought -- 4. The Problem of Historicism -- 5. Reason and Revelation: Jewish Thought after Strauss and Fackenheim -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index

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Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence - Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim, an important post-Holocaust Jewish theologian. There has been little consensus, however, on the definitive meaning of their work.Reason and Revelation before Historicism, the first full-length comparison of Strauss and Fackenheim,places the informal teacher and student in conversation alongside sections of their analyses of notable thinkers. Sharon Portnoff suggests that both saw historicism as the nexus of the intersection and tension between philosophy and religion and raised the possibility of the persistence of the permanent in the modern world. Portnoff illuminates our understanding of Strauss's relationship with Judaism, Fackenheim's oft-overshadowed great philosophical depth, and the function and character of Jewish thought in a secular, post-Holocaust world.

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In English.

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