Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter

by Allen Scult

Book Overview

This innovative book investigates "being Jewish" not as a sectarian religiosity but as a way of being-in-the-world particularly suited to understanding Heidegger's early phenomenology. At its core is an intimate engagement with "sacred texts," which grounds "being Jewish" in a way of life constituted as a way of reading--a way of reading transmitted to succeeding generations as a passionate teaching.

Allen Scult argues that Heidegger was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0823223116
• ISBN13: 9780823223114
• Release Date: July 2004
• Publisher: Fordham University Press
• Length: 186 Pages
• Weight: 0.85 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 5.5" x 8.8"