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Judaism, liberalism, and political theology / edited by Randi Rashkover & Martin Kavka.

Contributor(s): Rashkover, Randi [editor.] | Kavka, Martin [editor.]
Material type: TextTextPublisher: Bloomington : Indiana University Press, [2014]Copyright date: ©2014Description: vii, 356 pages : illustrations ; 23 cmContent type: text Media type: unmediated Carrier type: volumeISBN: 9780253010278; 0253010276Subject(s): Judaism and politics | Liberalism -- Religious aspects -- Judaism | Political theologyBibliography, Etc. Note: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents:
Randi Rashkover and Martin Kavka -- Judaism and Liberalism -- Spinoza and the Possibility Condition of Modern Judaism / Jerome E. Copulsky -- Plato Prophesied the Revelation: The Philosophico-Political Theology of Strauss' Philosophy and Law and the Guidance of Hermann Cohen / Dana Hollander -- What Do the Dead Deserve?: Towards A Critique of Jewish Political Theology / Martin Kavka -- The Zionism of Hannah Arendt 1941-1948 / Eric Jacobson -- Messianism, Miracle and Power -- Power and Israel in Martin Buber's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology / Gregory Kaplan -- The Political Theology of Ethical Monotheism / Daniel Weidner -- The Miraculous Birth of the Given: Reflections on Hannah Arendt and Franz Rosenzweig / Daniel Brandes -- Ethics, Law and the Universal -- Bad Jews, Authentic Jews, Figural Jews: Badiou and the politics of exemplarity / Sarah Hammerschlag -- The Patient Political Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud / Zachary Braiterman -- The Mosaic Distinction -- Reason within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the possibilities of monotheism / Robert Erlewine -- The Impossibility of the Prohibition of Images: Idolatry in Adorno, Levinas, and Schoenberg / Oona Eisenstadt -- From Distortion to Displacement: Freud and the Mosaic Distinction / Brian Britt -- Monotheism as a Political Problem: the critique of political theology out of the sources of Judaism / Bruce Rosenstock.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Introduction / Randi Rashkover and Martin Kavka -- Part 1. Judaism and Liberalism -- Spinoza and the Possibility Condition of Modern Judaism / Jerome E. Copulsky -- Plato Prophesied the Revelation: The Philosophico-Political Theology of Strauss' Philosophy and Law and the Guidance of Hermann Cohen / Dana Hollander -- What Do the Dead Deserve?: Towards A Critique of Jewish Political Theology / Martin Kavka -- The Zionism of Hannah Arendt 1941-1948 / Eric Jacobson -- Part 2. Messianism, Miracle and Power -- Power and Israel in Martin Buber's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology / Gregory Kaplan -- The Political Theology of Ethical Monotheism / Daniel Weidner -- The Miraculous Birth of the Given: Reflections on Hannah Arendt and Franz Rosenzweig / Daniel Brandes -- Part 3. Ethics, Law and the Universal -- Bad Jews, Authentic Jews, Figural Jews: Badiou and the politics of exemplarity / Sarah Hammerschlag -- The Patient Political Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud / Zachary Braiterman -- Part 4. The Mosaic Distinction -- Reason within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the possibilities of monotheism / Robert Erlewine -- The Impossibility of the Prohibition of Images: Idolatry in Adorno, Levinas, and Schoenberg / Oona Eisenstadt -- From Distortion to Displacement: Freud and the Mosaic Distinction / Brian Britt -- Monotheism as a Political Problem: the critique of political theology out of the sources of Judaism / Bruce Rosenstock.

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