Postsecular Jewish Thought: Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, Leo Strauss

This article traces the emergence of what is nowadays called “postsecular” religion from German-Jewish philosophy of the 1920s and 1930s. The three different cases of Franz Rosenzweig, Alexander Altmann, and Leo Strauss impel us to pay particular attention to a few recurring argumentative and rhetor...

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Main Author: Wussow, Philipp von (Author)
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Published: MDPI 2024
In: Religions
Year: 2024, Volume: 15, Issue: 4
Further subjects:B Phenomenology
B Enlightenment
B Postsecularism
B Jewish Philosophy
B postcritical Judaism
B secular messianism
B posttraditional Jewish thought
B Orthodoxy
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