RELIGST 129 - Modern Jewish Thought

Institution:

Stanford University

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Description:

From the early Enlightenment to the present. Universalism, subjectivity, and redemption within Judaism's encounter with modernity as reflected on by Jewish intellectuals within the Western philosophical tradition; how modern Jewish intellectuals have shaped and been shaped by current debates. Challenges to religious identity by secularism, capitalism, and the nation state. Messianism, mysticism, reactionary romanticism, critical theory, post-Holocaust philosophy, spirituality, and feminism. Thinkers include Spinoza, Marx, Freud, Buber, Strauss, the Frankfurt school, Benjamin, Arendt, and Levinas. 4 units, not given this year

Credits:

4.00

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Instructional Type:

Lecture

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Institution Website:

www.stanford.edu/

Phone Number:

(650) 723-2300

Regional Accreditation:

Western Association of Schools and Colleges

Calendar System:

Quarter

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