TY  - BOOK
AU  - Herskowitz, Daniel M.
PY  - 2021
DA  - 2021//
TI  - Heidegger and his Jewish reception
PB  - Cambridge University Press
CY  - Cambridge
KW  - Jewish philosophy
KW  - Judaism and philosophy
KW  - Rezeption
KW  - Heidegger, Martin ; 1889-1976
AB  - In this book, Daniel Herskowitz examines the rich, intense, and persistent Jewish engagement with one of the most important and controversial modern philosophers, Martin Heidegger. Contextualizing this encounter within wider intellectual, cultural, and political contexts, he outlines the main patterns and the diverse Jewish responses to Heidegger. Herskowitz shows that through a dialectic of attraction and repulsion, Jewish thinkers developed a version of Jewishness that sought to offer the way out of the overall crisis plaguing their world, which was embodied, as they saw it, in Heidegger's life and thought. Neither turning a blind eye to Heidegger's anti-Semitism nor using it as an excuse for ignoring his philosophy, they wrestled with his existential analytic and what they took to be its religious, ethical, and political failings. Ironically, Heidegger's thought proved itself to be fertile ground for re-conceptualizing what it means to be Jewish in the modern world.
SN  - 9781108886109
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1017/9781108886109
DO  - 10.1017/9781108886109
LA  - English
N1  - Daniel M. Herskowitz
ID  - 1736007211
ER  -