The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild, edited by Menachem Kellner

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The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild, edited by Menachem Kellner

Title remainder

Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild

Statement of responsibility

edited by Menachem Kellner

Instantiates

• The pursuit of the ideal : Jewish writings of Steven Schwarzschild

Publication

• Albany, State University of New York Press, ©1990

Note

Includes index

Bibliography note

Bibliography: p. 379-390

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text

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Contents

Introduction by Menachem Kellner -- The personal Messiah-toward the restoration of a discarded doctrine -- Do Noachites have to believe in revelation? (A passage in dispute between Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Herman Cohen) A contribution to a Jewish view of natural law -- The lure of immanence-the crisis in contemporary religious thought -- On the theology of Jewish survival -- A note on the nature of ideal society-A Rabbinic study -- The legal foundation of Jewish aesthetics -- The question of Jewish ethics today -- Moral radicalism and "middlingness" in the ethics of Maimonides -- Jean-Paul Sartre as Jew -- A critique of Martin Buber's political philosophy-an affectionate reappraisal

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24 cm.

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xii, 394 pages

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9780791402207

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89004441

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2 illustrations

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99194256940001161

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(OCoLC)19511692