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RLST162 PO - Modern Jewish Philosophy

When Offered: Last offered spring 2015.
Instructor(s): O. Eisenstadt
Credit: 1

Introduces Jewish philosophy in the modern period, beginning with early modern attempts to define Judaism against secular society and its evolution into contemporary modern and postmodern theories about the role of dialogue with the other in the formation of the individual. Texts by Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas will be taken up closely. Other authors, literary and philosophical, will be read for context. (CWS, PRT, MES)
Satisfies the following General Education Requirement(s), subject to conditions explained in the Degree Requirements section of this Catalog:
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