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  • Martin Buber

    Creaturely Life and Social Form

    by Sarah Scott, Peter A. Huff, Claire E. Sufrin, Samuel Hayim Brody, Yemima Hadad, William Plevan, Zachary J. Braiterman, Asaf Ziderman, Dustin Atlas ...
    Series series New Jewish Philosophy and Thought
    A new collection of essays highlighting the wide range of Buber's thought, career, and activism.Best known for I and Thou, which laid out his distinction between dialogic and monologic relations, Martin Buber (1878–1965) was also an anthologist, translator, and author of some seven hundred books and papers. Martin Buber: Creaturely Life and Social Form, edited by Sarah Scott, is a collection of ... Read more

    $35.99 USD

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  • Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition

    by David Bakan ...
    Discover the intriguing connections between one of the most influential figures in psychology and the rich heritage of Jewish mysticism in David Bakan's seminal work, "Sigmund Freud and the Jewish Mystical Tradition." This groundbreaking book offers a unique perspective on Sigmund Freud, the father of psychoanalysis, exploring how his Jewish background and mystical traditions may have shaped his ... Read more

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  • God in Pain

    Inversions of Apocalypse

    by Slavoj Zizek, Boris Gunjevic ...
    Translated by Ellen Elias-Bursac ...
    A brilliant dissection and reconstruction of the three major faith-based systems of belief in the world today, from one of the world's most articulate intellectuals, Slavoj Zizek, in conversation with Croatian philosopher Boris Gunjévic. In six chapters that describe Christianity, Islam, and Judaism in fresh ways using the tools of Hegelian and Lacanian analysis, God in Pain: Inversions of ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Charisma

    The Gift of Grace, and How It Has Been Taken Away from Us

    by Philip Rieff ...
    From a profoundly influential social theorist comes a posthumously published analysis of the deepest level of crisis in our culture.“A compelling diagnosis of our condition.” —The Wall Street JournalAccording to Rieff, the contemporary notion of charisma—the personal magnetism of political leaders or movie stars—is a tragic misunderstanding of a profoundly important concept. Charisma originally ... Read more

    $13.99 USD

  • Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life

    Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein

    by Hilary Putnam ...
    An "engagingly personal" exploration of Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, and the relationship between philosophy and religion ( Times Literary Supplement).In this book, distinguished philosopher and practicing Jew Hilary Putnam questions the thought of three major Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century—Franz Rosenzweig, Martin Buber, and Emmanuel Levinas—to help him reconcile the philosophical ... Read more

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  • The Puppet and the Dwarf

    The Perverse Core of Christianity

    by Slavoj Zizek ...
    Series series Short Circuits
    One of our most daring intellectuals offers a Lacanian interpretation of religion, finding that early Christianity was the first revolutionary collective.Slavoj Žižek has been called "an academic rock star" and "the wild man of theory"; his writing mixes astonishing erudition and references to pop culture in order to dissect current intellectual pieties. In The Puppet and the Dwarf he offers a ... Read more

    $21.99 USD

  • After the Death of God

    by Gianni Vattimo, John D. Caputo ...
    Series series Insurrections: Critical Studies in Religion, Politics, and Culture
    It has long been assumed that the more modern we become, the less religious we will be. Yet a recent resurrection in faith has challenged the certainty of this belief. In these original essays and interviews, leading hermeneutical philosophers and postmodern theorists John D. Caputo and Gianni Vattimo engage with each other's past and present work on the subject and reflect on our transition from ... Read more

    $24.99 USD

  • The Journey of Modern Theology

    From Reconstruction to Deconstruction

    by Roger E. Olson ...
    Modernity has been an age of revolutions—political, scientific, industrial and philosophical. Consequently, it has also been an age of revolutions in theology, as Christians attempt to make sense of their faith in light of the cultural upheavals around them, what Walter Lippman once called the "acids of modernity." Modern theology is the result of this struggle to think responsibly about God ... Read more

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  • 20th-Century Theology

    God and the World in a Transitional Age

    by Stanley J. Grenz, Roger E. Olson ...
    Recipient of a Christianity Today 1993 Critics' Choice AwardNow in paperback! Stanley Grenz and Roger Olson offer in this text a sympathetic introduction to twentieth-century theology and a critical survey of its significant thinkers and movements. Of particular interest is their attempt to show how twentieth-century theology has moved back and forth between two basic concepts: God's immanence and ... Read more

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  • The First Modern Jew

    Spinoza and the History of an Image

    by Daniel B. Schwartz ...
    Pioneering biblical critic, theorist of democracy, and legendary conflater of God and nature, Jewish philosopher Baruch Spinoza (1632-1677) was excommunicated by the Sephardic Jews of Amsterdam in 1656 for his "horrible heresies" and "monstrous deeds." Yet, over the past three centuries, Spinoza's rupture with traditional Jewish beliefs and practices has elevated him to a prominent place in ... Read more

    $51.89 USD

  • Kantian Reason and Hegelian Spirit

    The Idealistic Logic of Modern Theology

    by Gary Dorrien ...
    Winner: 2012 The American Publishers Award for Professional and Scholarly Excellence in Theology and Religious Studies, PROSE Award.In this thought-provoking new work, the world renowned theologian Gary Dorrien reveals how Kantian and post-Kantian idealism were instrumental in the foundation and development of modern Christian theology.Presents a radical rethinking of the roots of modern ... Read more

    $45.00 USD

  • Judaism, Liberalism, & Political Theology

    by Jerome E. Copulsky, Dana Hollander, Eric Jacobson, Gregory Kaplan, Daniel Weidner, Daniel Brandes, Sarah Hammerschlag, Zachary Braiterman, Robert Erlewine, Oona Eisenstadt, Brian Britt, Bruce Rosenstock ...
    Series series Encounters: Explorations in Folklore and Ethnomusicology
    These essays propose "a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political" ( Jewish Book World ).Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology, arguing in opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal ... Read more

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