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Rorty and the prophetic : Jewish engagements with a secular philosopher
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- Creator
- edited by Jacob L. Goodson and Brad Elliott Stone
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Contributors
- Publication
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- Lanham, Maryland : Lexington Books, [2021]
- ©2021
- Physical Details
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- vi, 239 pages ; 23 cm
- ISBNs
- 1498523005, 9781498523004, 9781498523011
- OCLC
- on1199329400
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Part I: Social hope and solidarity : bringing Jewish philosophy and Rorty's neo-pragmatism together. Rorty, my atheist Rabbi? : between irony and social hope / Akiba Lerner -- Prudence in the twenty-first century : moving beyond the morality-prudence distinction with Maimonides and Rorty / Jacob L: Goodson -- Charlottesville pragmatism : Richard Rorty's neo-pragmatism and Peter Ochs's rabbinic pragmatism Gary Slater -- Part II: Politics and prophecy : finding common ground in Jewish theology and Rorty's secular liberalism. The grounds of prophecy : Richard Rorty and the hermeneutics of history by Samuel / Hayim Brody -- Messianism as a conversation stopper? : ironic utopianism and pragmatist Jewish politics / Elliot Ratzman -- How to read Rorty as a political theologian : and why we should by Stephen Minister -- Part III: Conversation and cruelty : putting Rorty's philosophy in conversation with Emmuel Levinas's Jewish ethics. All in the details : Rorty and Levinas on language, cruelty, and togetherness / Megan Craig -- Two faces of heteronomy : autonomy and cruelty in Rorty and Levinas / Brad Elliott Stone -- "A Faith without Triumph" : Levinas, Rorty, and prophetic pragmatism / J. Aaron Simmons -- Rabbinic reasoning and a Rortyan ethic : narrative, pragmatism, and solidarity / Hannah E. Hashkes -- Conclusion. Rorty and Heidegger's Nazism