Modern Jewish Philosophy and the Politics of Divine Violence

by Daniel Weiss

Is commitment to God compatible with modern citizenship? In this book, Daniel H. Weiss provides new readings of four modern Jewish philosophers - Moses Mendelssohn, Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, and Walter Benjamin - in light of classical rabbinic accounts of God's sovereignty, divine and human violence, and the embodied human being as the image of God. He demonstrates how classical rabbinic literature is relevant to contemporary political and...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1009221655
• ISBN13: 9781009221658
• Release Date: April 2023
• Publisher: Cambridge University Press
• Length: 350 Pages
• Weight: 1.49 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 9.0"