ANTH 7765 - Secular/Postsecular Emancipatory Jewish Thought

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California Institute of Integral Studies

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The European Enlightenment and Jewish Haskala were movements for rational critique of religion and orthodoxy in cultural tradition. The Enlightenment responded to prolific oppression in European history linked to the imbrication of Christianity and political states. The Haskala sought to rethink Jewish tradition in the context of secularization in Christianized Europe. Radical social thought disproportionately emerged from Jewish thinkers. What discontinuities and continuities exist between secular Jewish thought and the cultural history of the Jews How is a people's spiritual legacy renegotiated and transformed through an affirmative and critical relation to the Enlightenment project to organize social relations according to reason and freedom How are the boundaries between the secular and religious, tradition and modernity, spirituality and politics, challenged by emancipatory Jewish thought These are some of the questions we will explore through close reading of texts by Marx, Freud, Kafka, Arendt, Benjamin, Derrida, and others.

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3.00

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Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.ciis.edu

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(415) 575-6100

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

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Semester

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