Title: From Spinoza and Marx to Levinas
Subtitle: The Question of Modern Jewish Thought
Subject Classification:  Philosophy, Religion and Faith  
BIC Classification: HR, HP
BISAC Classification: REL040030, REL040090, PHI022000
Binding: Hardback, eBook
Planned publication date: Aug 2025
ISBN (Hardback): 978-1-83711-424-5
ISBN (eBook): 978-1-83711-425-2

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Description

The purpose of this book is to take up the challenge of defining Modern Jewish Thought. The narrative explores some of the major minds and movements in Jewish thinking in the last 350 years while asking four questions: what is “modern”? what is “Jewish”? what is “thought”? and how might we understand all three terms combined as one rubric?

In considering the historical development of diverse thought patterns and issues that emerge outside and inside Jewish life during this period – including Secularism, Nationalism, Marxism, Socialism, Existentialism, Psychoanalysis, Reconstructionism, Modern Orthodoxy, the Holocaust—what do the reflections of individuals diverse in background and outward expression share, by virtue of which we may group them together under such a rubric? The criss-cross of personalities and genres—philosophy and theology and also literature (both prose and poetry) and psychoanalysis—should, in the end, begin to answer parts of our questions, while stimulating further questions.

Biography

Author(s):  Ori Z Soltes teaches across the disciplines of art history, theology, philosophy, and political history at Georgetown University, USA.

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