A History of Modern Jewish Religious Philosophy : Volume III: the Crisis of Humanism. a Historical Crossroads.

Intro -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Historical and Methodological Introduction -- Chapter 1 The Crisis of Humanism in German Philosophy -- 1.1 Karl Marx's Historical Materialism -- 1.2 Marx on Judaism -- 1.3 The School of "Historical Materialism" and Humanism -- 1.4 Truth and Ethics Undermined: the Philosophy of Friedrich Nietzsche -- 1.5 The Existential Crisis of the Individual from the Perspective of Religion: the Religious Philosophy of Søren Kierkegaard -- 1.6 Empirical Science in Place of Philosophy: Comte, Darwin, Spencer -- Chapter 2 Defense of Humanism through a Return to the Sources of Judaism in Germany -- 2.1 Introduction -- 2.2 Moses Hess: Humanistic Socialism from the Sources of Judaism -- 2.3 Moritz Lazarus: Realizing Kant's Ethical Idealism as a Way of Life, According to the Sources of Judaism -- Chapter 3 The Philosophical Campaign for Realizing Humanism as a Universal Jewish Mission: the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen -- 3.1 The Development of Cohen's Personality and His Method -- 3.2 The Mission Expressed in the Renewal of Kant's Idealist Philosophy -- 3.3 Did Cohen's Methodology Change in Order to Accommodate the Discussion of Religion? -- 3.4 Defining the Task of Philosophy in Culture and Its Relation to Its Sources -- 3.5 The "Principle of Origin" -- 3.6 The Ethics: Law and Justice, Politics and Morality -- 3.7 Comparing Religion within the Limits of Reason Alone to Religion of Reason from the Sources of Judaism -- 3.8 The Idea of Correlation -- 3.9 Religion of Reason out of the Sources of Judaism -- 3.10 God's Unity/Uniqueness, and the Problem of Proofs for God's Existence -- 3.11 Creation and Revelation -- 3.12 "You Shall Be Holy for I Am Holy" and "Love Your Neighbor as Yourself: I Am the Lord" -- 3.14 The Idea of Messiah and the Election of Israel for the Sake of Human History.

3.15 Halakha and Jewish Nationality -- 3.16 The Vision of Peace and the Sabbath -- Chapter 4 The Doctrine of Jewish Nationalism Based on Positivism: the Teaching of Aḥad Ha-Am -- 4.1 The Development of the Personality and Thought of Aḥad Ha-Am(Asher Ginzberg) -- 4.2 "The Problem of the Jews" and "The Problem of Judaism" -- 4.3 The Roots of National Identity -- 4.4 Judaism as a National Culture -- 4.5 The Place of the Religious Worldview in Shaping Secular Jewish Culture -- 4.6 Jewish Ethics and Halakha -- Chapter 5 The Debate in Eastern Europe on Judaism as a Secular Culture -- 5.1 Introduction -- 5.2 A National Philosophy of Religion in Religious Zionism: the Thought of Samuel Aleksandrow and Isaac Jacob Reines -- 5.3 The Social-Historical Existence of the Jewish People: Simon Dubnow's Theory of the "Spiritual Center" -- 5.4 Nietzsche's Influence among the Younger Generation in Modern Hebrew Literature, and Micha Josef Berdyczewski's "Transvaluationof Values" -- 5.5 Does Judaism Have a Future? The Nihilism of S. Y. Hurwitz -- Chapter 6 Jewish Socialism and Marxism in Eastern Europe -- 6.1 The Appearance of Jewish Workers' Movements in Eastern Europe, and the Background to Their Differences -- 6.2 Socialist Tendencies in the Radical Haskalah: Aaron SamuelLieberman's Ha-Emet -- 6.3 Jewish National Social Democracy in the Ideology of the Bund -- 6.4 Jewish Socialist Nationalism: the Teaching of Chaim Zhitlovsky -- 6.5 The Essence of Jewish Socialism: the Socialist-Zionist Philosophy of Nachman Syrkin -- 6.6 The Dialectic of Fate of the Jewish People in the Social Revolution: Marxism and Zionism in the Thought of Ber Borochov -- Glossary -- Bibliography -- Index.

Volume Three, The Crisis of Humanism, commences with an important essay on the challenge to the humanist tradition posed in the late 19th century by historical materialism, existentialism and positivism. These Jewish thinkers of the late 19th and early 20th century addressed the general European value crisis while laying foundations for Jewish renewal: Hess, Lazarus, Cohen, Ahad Ha-Am, Dubnow, Berdiczewski, and the theorists of Yiddishism and Labor Zionism.

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