Heidegger and his Jewish reception

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 patter...

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Main Author: Herskowitz, Daniel M. 1987- (Author)
Format: Electronic Book
Language:English
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Published: Cambridge Cambridge University Press 2021
In:Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Herskowitz, Daniel M., 1987-, Heidegger and his Jewish reception] (2022) (Warren, Nicolas de, 1969 -)
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Heidegger, Martin 1889-1976 / Anti-judaism / Antisemitism / Jewish philosophy / History 1920-2020
Further subjects:B Heidegger, Martin (1889-1976)
B Jewish Philosophy
B Heidegger, Martin
B Reception
B Judaism and philosophy
B Heidegger, Martin ; 1889-1976
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Parallel Edition:Electronic
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Summary: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.
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ISBN:1108886108
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1017/9781108886109