What Are Jews For? (eBook)

History, Peoplehood, and Purpose

Adam Sutcliffe (Autor)

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2020
376 Seiten
Princeton University Press (Verlag)
978-0-691-20193-1 (ISBN)

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A wide-ranging look at the history of Western thinking since the seventeenth century on the purpose of the Jewish people in the past, present, and futureWhat is the purpose of Jews in the world? The Bible singles out the Jews as God's "e;chosen people,"e; but the significance of this special status has been understood in many different ways over the centuries. What Are Jews For? traces the history of the idea of Jewish purpose from its ancient and medieval foundations to the modern era, showing how it has been central to Western thinking on the meanings of peoplehood for everybody. Adam Sutcliffe delves into the links between Jewish and Christian messianism and the association of Jews with universalist and transformative ideals in modern philosophy, politics, literature, and social thought.The Jews have been accorded a crucial role in both Jewish and Christian conceptions of the end of history, when they will usher the world into a new epoch of unity and harmony. Since the seventeenth century this messianic underlay to the idea of Jewish purpose has been repeatedly reconfigured in new forms. From the political theology of the early modern era to almost all domains of modern thought-religious, social, economic, nationalist, radical, assimilationist, satirical, and psychoanalytical-Jews have retained a close association with positive transformation for all. Sutcliffe reveals the persistent importance of the "e;Jewish Purpose Question"e; in the attempts of Jews and non-Jews alike to connect the collective purpose of particular communities to the broader betterment of humanity.Shedding light on questions of exceptionalism, pluralism, and universalism, What Are Jews For? explores an intricate question that remains widely resonant in contemporary culture and political debate.

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 16.6.2020
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie ► Spezielle Soziologien
• Schlagworte: Abraham Geiger • Abraham Kook • activism • Age of Enlightenment • Ahad Ha'am • Ahad Ha’am • Ancient Judaism (book) • anti-Judaism • Antinomianism • Antisemitism • Anti-Semitism • Antisemitism (authors) • anti-Zionism • A People Apart • Arnold Eisen • Ashkenazi Jews • Avi Becker • Baruch Spinoza • Carl Schmitt • Chief Rabbi • Chosen people • Christianity • Christianity and Judaism • Conversion to Judaism • Cosmopolitanism • crypto-Judaism • Cultural Zionism • Daniel Deronda • Daniel Frank • David Ben-Gurion • David Novak • Dialectic • Elijah Benamozegh • euthanasia • Franz Rosenzweig • gentile • George Eliot • Germans • Gershom Scholem • God • Gotthold Ephraim Lessing • Grace Aguilar • Hannah Arendt • Hebraic political theology • Hebraism • Hebraist • Hebrew Bible • Hebrews • Hermann Cohen • Horace Kallen • Immanuel Kant • imperialism • Islamic–Jewish relations • Israel • Jacques Derrida • Jewish capitalism • Jewish-Christian relations • Jewish Culture • Jewish Diaspora • Jewish Education • Jewish emancipation • Jewish ethics • Jewish History • Jewish Identity • Jewish Mysticism • Jewish nationalism • Jewish Peoplehood • Jewish philosophy • Jewish political purpose • Jewish religious thought • Jewish right • Jewish Studies • Jewish suffering • Jewish teaching • Jewish transformation • Jews • Jews as the chosen people • Jews in early Islam • Judah Halevi • Judaism • Kabbalah • Land of Israel • Liel Leibovitz • Light Unto the Nations • Lurianic Kabbalah • Mark Lilla • Medieval Christianity • Messiah in Judaism • Messianic Age • messianism • Millenarianism • modern history • Modernity • Mordecai Kaplan • Moses Mendelssohn • Moses Montefiore • narrative • Nathan the Wise • Nazi Party • Nazism • Old Testament • On the Jewish Question • Orthodox Judaism • Philo-Semitism • Philosopher • Philosophy • Pierre Bayle • Polemic • Political Theology • Politics • Protestantism • Rabbinic Judaism • Radicalism (historical) • Religion • Religious Studies • religious text • rhetoric • Righteousness • Sabbatai Zevi • Samson Hirsch • Samuel Hirsch • school of thought • Secularism • Sephardi Jews • S. Leyla Gurkan • Spirituality • Superiority (short story) • The Chosen Peoples • The Election of Israel • The enlightenment • The Holocaust • The Jews as a Chosen People • Theology • The Philosopher • The Stillborn God • Tikkun Olam • todd gitlin • Tractatus Theologico-Politicus • Uncertainty • Universalism • Voltaire • Walter Benjamin • Walter Scott • Western Europe • Western thought • Writing • Zionism
• ISBN-10: 0-691-20193-5 / 0691201935
• ISBN-13: 978-0-691-20193-1 / 9780691201931