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Reason and Revelation before Historicism : Strauss and Fackenheim /

"Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence -- Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L....

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Portnoff, Sharon
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, 2011.
Series:Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Online Access:Texto completo
Table of Contents:
  • Background and introduction
  • Strauss's formulation of the relationship between reason and revelation in modern thought and his rejection of a practical synthesis
  • Fackenheim's formulation of the relationship between philosophy and revelatory theology in modern thought
  • The problem of historicism
  • Reason and revelation : Jewish thought after Strauss and Fackenheim.