Jacob Gordin: The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought
This article offers an English translation of an essay published in 1946 by Jacob Gordin (1896-1947), a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, who is considered the founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought (École de pensée juive de Paris). In "The Religious Crisis in Jewis...
| Published in: | Religions |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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2022
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Religions
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| Further subjects: | B
Maimonides
B Emmanuel Levinas B Jean-Paul Sartre B Hermann Cohen B Kierkegaard B Jacob Gordin B Existentialism B Jewish Thought B postwar France B École de pensée juive de Paris |
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| Summary: | This article offers an English translation of an essay published in 1946 by Jacob Gordin (1896-1947), a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, who is considered the founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought (École de pensée juive de Paris). In "The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought", Gordin presented a sweeping meta-narrative of the history of Jewish thought, formulated as a history of repeated "religious crises", both existential and intellectual. In Gordin’s condensed narrative, these crises could be detected in the life and philosophy of the most canonical Jewish thinkers inside and outside the tradition: from Abraham the biblical patriarch to Hermann Cohen, through a diverse list including the rabbinical sage Elisha Ben-Abuyah, Philo, Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza. In an introduction to Gordin’s text, I provide a brief biography, locate Gordin in existentialist discourse of the early postwar years, and discuss the affinities between Gordin’s "The Religious Crisis" and Levinas’s and Sartre’s early reflections on the Jewish question. |
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| ISSN: | 2077-1444 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Religions
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.3390/rel13010044 |