Gendering modern Jewish thought

For Cooper, a more responsible and ethical reading of Jewish philosophy comes forward when it is opened to the voices of mothers, sisters, and daughters

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Main Author: Cooper, Andrea Dara (Author)
Format: Print Book
Language:English
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Published: Bloomington, Indiana Indiana University Press [2021]
In:Year: 2021
Reviews:[Rezension von: Cooper, Andrea Dara, Gendering modern Jewish thought] (2024) (Juni, Nechama)
Series/Journal:New Jewish philosophy and thought
Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains:B Jewish philosophy / Feminist philosophy / Family / Feminism / Jewish philosophy
Further subjects:B Feminism - Religious aspects - Judaism
B Rosenzweig, Franz - 1886-1929
B Feminism Religious aspects Judaism
B Jewish Philosophy
B Jewish Philosophy 20th century
B Lévinas, Emmanuel
B 1900-1999
B Philosophie juive - 20e siècle
Parallel Edition:Electronic
Erscheint auch als: 9780253057556
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Summary:For Cooper, a more responsible and ethical reading of Jewish philosophy comes forward when it is opened to the voices of mothers, sisters, and daughters
Cover -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Contents -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: Gendered Genealogies -- 1. Lovers and Brothers -- 2. Eros, Bodies, and Beyond -- 3. Filial and Fraternal Friends -- 4. Scandalous Siblings -- 5. Sacrificial Mothers, Sacrificial Sisters -- Epilogue: Beyond the Fraternal Family -- Bibliography -- Index.
"The idea of brotherhood has been an important philosophical concept for understanding community, equality, and justice. In Gendering Modern Jewish Thought, Andrea Dara Cooper offers a gendered reading that challenges the key figures of the all-male fraternity of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy to open up to the feminine. Cooper offers a feminist lens, which when applied to thinkers such as Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, reveals new ways of illuminating questions of relational ethics, embodiment, politics, and positionality. She shows that patriarchal kinship as models of erotic love, brotherhood, and paternity are not accidental in Jewish philosophy, but serve as norms that have excluded women and non-normative individuals. Gendering Modern Jewish Thought suggests these fraternal models do real damage and must be brought to account in more broadly humanistic frameworks. For Cooper, a more responsible and ethical reading of Jewish philosophy comes forward when it is opened to the voices of mothers, sisters, and daughters."--Publisher
ISBN:0253057574