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Book SynopsisProposes a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political.
Trade ReviewThe editors have done their work well and supplied a very faithful summary of the contributor's labours, while the contribuotrs themselves have shown exemplary diligence and intellectual clarity for which this reader is extremely grateful.
* The Muslim World Book Review *
[Proposes] a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political.Fall 2014
* Jewish Book World *
The collection's sharp and nuanced insights into the role of Judaism (real or imagined) in the discourse of political theology, and its corrective to the ways that in which Judaism has been misrepresented and abused by this important stream of modern thought, are urgent, enlightening, and highly recommended reading.
* H-Judaic *
Table of ContentsIntroduction Randi Rashkover and Martin Kavka
Part I. Judaism and Liberalism
1. Spinoza and the Possibility Condition of Modern Judaism, Jerome Copulsky
2. Plato Prophesied the Revelation: The Philosophico-Political Theology of Strauss'
Philosophy and Law and the Guidance of Hermann Cohen, Dana Hollander
3. What Do the Dead Deserve?: Towards A Critique of Jewish Political Theology,
Martin Kavka
4. The Zionism of Hannah Arendt 1941-1948, Eric Jacobson
Part II. Messianism, Miracle and Power
5. Power and Israel in Martin Buber's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology,
Gregory Kaplan
6. The Political Theology of Ethical Monotheism, Daniel Weidner
7. The Miraculous Birth of the Given, Daniel Brandes
Part III. Ethics, Law and the Universal
8. Bad Jews, Authentic Jews, Figural Jews, Sarah Hammerschlag
9. The Patient Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud, Zachary Braiterman
Part IV. The Mosaic Distinction
10. Reason within the Bounds of Religion, Robert Erlewine
11. The Impossibility of the Prohibition of Images, Oona Eisenstadt
12.From Distortion to Displacement: Freud and the Mosaic Distinction, Brian Britt
13. Monotheism as a Political Problem, Bruce Rosenstock
Contributors
Index
