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  • Wittgenstein and Skepticism

    by Andrea Kern ...
    Series series Elements in the Philosophy of Ludwig Wittgenstein
    This Element is about Wittgenstein's engagement with skepticism. Two forms of skepticism will be at the center of this Element: skepticism concerning our knowledge of the 'external world,' and skepticism concerning our knowledge of 'other minds.' It will be shown that Wittgenstein is neither a skeptic nor an anti-skeptic. Rather, Wittgenstein thinks of the skeptic's doubt as a form of denial: a ... Read more

    $23.19 CAD

  • Sources of Knowledge

    On the Concept of a Rational Capacity for Knowledge

    by Andrea Kern ...
    Translated by Daniel Smyth ...
    How can human beings, who are liable to error, possess knowledge? The skeptic finds this question impossible to answer. If we can err, then it seems the grounds on which we believe do not rule out that we are wrong. Most contemporary epistemologists agree with the skeptic that we can never believe on grounds that exclude error. Sources of Knowledge moves beyond this predicament by demonstrating ... Read more

    $43.99 CAD

  • Jewish Identities in Contemporary Europe

    Edited by Andrea Reiter, Lucille Cairns ...
    Providing an assessment of Jewish identity, this volume presents critical engagements with a number of Jewish writers and filmmakers from a variety of European countries, including Austria, France, Germany, Poland, and the UK. The novels and films discussed explore the meaning of being Jewish in Europe today, and investigate the extent to which this experience is shaped by factors that lie outside ... Read more

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  • Parting Ways

    Jewishness and the Critique of Zionism

    by Judith Butler ...
    Judith Butler follows Edward Said's late suggestion that through a consideration of Palestinian dispossession in relation to Jewish diasporic traditions a new ethos can be forged for a one-state solution. Butler engages Jewish philosophical positions to articulate a critique of political Zionism and its practices of illegitimate state violence, nationalism, and state-sponsored racism. At the same ... Read more

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  • Israel in History

    The Jewish State in Comparative Perspective

    by Derek Penslar ...
    Covering topical issues concerning the nature of the Israeli state, this engaging work presents essays that combine a variety of comparative schemes, both internal to Jewish civilization and extending throughout the world, such as:modern Jewish society, politics and culturehistorical consciousness in the twentieth centurycolonialism, anti-colonialism and postcolonial state-building.With its open ... Read more

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  • Lessons of the Holocaust

    by Michael R. Marrus ...
    Series series UTP Insights
    Although difficult to imagine, sixty years ago the Holocaust had practically no visibility in examinations of the Second World War. Yet today it is understood to be not only one of the defining moments of the twentieth century but also a touchstone in a quest for directions on how to avoid such catastrophes.In Lessons of the Holocaust, the distinguished historian Michael R. Marrus challenges the ... Read more

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  • The Making of Modern Zionism

    The Intellectual Origins of the Jewish State

    by Shlomo Avineri ...
    An expanded edition of a classic intellectual history of Zionism, now covering the rise of religious Zionism since the 1970sFor eighteen centuries pious Jews had prayed for the return to Jerusalem, but only in the revolutionary atmosphere of nineteenth-century Europe was this yearning transformed into an active political movement: Zionism. In The Making of Modern Zionism, the distinguished ... Read more

    $17.99 CAD

  • Whatever Happened to Antisemitism?

    Redefinition and the Myth of the 'Collective Jew'

    by Antony Lerman ...
    'This elegantly written, erudite book is essential reading for all of us, whatever our identifications' - Lynne SegalAntisemitism is one of the most controversial topics of our time. The public, academics, journalists, activists and Jewish people themselves are divided over its meaning. Antony Lerman shows that this is a result of a 30-year process of redefinition of the phenomenon, casting Israel ... Read more

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  • Hannah Arendt

    Legal Theory and the Eichmann Trial

    by Peter Burdon ...
    Series series Nomikoi: Critical Legal Thinkers
    Hannah Arendt is one of the great outsiders of twentieth-century political philosophy. After reporting on the trial of Nazi war criminal Adolf Eichmann, Arendt embarked on a series of reflections about how to make judgments and exercise responsibility without recourse to existing law, especially when existing law is judged as immoral. This book uses Hannah Arendt’s text Eichmann in Jerusalem to ... Read more

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  • The No-State Solution

    A Jewish Manifesto

    by Daniel Boyarin ...
    **A provocative manifesto, arguing for a new understanding of the Jews’ peoplehood“A self-consciously radical statement that is both astute and joyous.”—Kirkus Reviews**Today there are two seemingly mutually exclusive notions of what “the Jews” are: either a religion or a nation/ethnicity. The widespread conception is that the Jews were formerly either a religious community in exile or a nation ... Read more

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  • Czernowitz at 100

    The First Yiddish Language Conference in Historical Perspective

    by Zachary Baker, David Birnbaum, Marc Caplan, Leye Lipsky, Ezra Mendelsohn, Jess Olson, Rakhmiel Peltz, Mordkhe Schaechter, Marie Schumacher-Brunhes, Kalman Weiser, Matthew Hoffman, Dr Philip Hollander, Rebecca Margolis ...
    Czernowitz at 100 represents a collection based on the proceedings of a 2008 international conference convened at York University in Toronto. Each chapter looks back at a portion over a long century, one marked with the mass migration of Ashkenazi Jews across the globe, two world wars, the Holocaust, the birth of Israel, and the rise and fall of the Soviet bloc. They assess the achievements and ... Read more

    $102.19 CAD

  • Literary Passports

    The Making of Modernist Hebrew Fiction in Europe

    by Shachar Pinsker ...
    Series series Stanford Studies in Jewish History and Culture
    Literary Passports is the first book to explore modernist Hebrew fiction in Europe in the early decades of the twentieth century. It not only serves as an introduction to this important body of literature, but also acts as a major revisionist statement, freeing this literature from a Zionist-nationalist narrative and viewing it through the wider lens of new comparative studies in modernism. The ... Read more

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