Avi Sagi : existentialism, pluralism, and identity / edited by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson and Aaron W. Hughes.

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computer

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online resource

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9789004280816
9004280812

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Additional physical formats: Print version:: Avi SagiDDC classification:

181/.06 23

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B5800 .A95 2015eb

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Contents:

The Contributors; Editors' Introduction to the Series; Avi Sagi: An Intellectual Portrait; The Punishment of Amalek in Jewish Tradition: Coping with the Moral Problem; Natural Law and Halakhah: A Critical Analysis; Tikkun Olam: Between Utopian Idea and Socio-Historical Process; Justifying Interreligious Pluralism; Interview with Avi Sagi; Select Bibliography.

Summary: "Avi Sagi is professor of philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. A philosopher, literary critic, scholar of cultural studies, historian and philosopher of halakhah, public intellectual, social critic, and educator, Sagi has written most lucidly on the challenges that face humanity, Judaism, and Israeli society today. As an intertextual thinker, Sagi integrates numerous strands within contemporary philosophy, while critically engaging Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. Offering an insightful defense of pluralism and multiculturalism, his numerous writings integrate philosophy, religion, theology, jurisprudence, psychology, art, literature, and politics, charting a new path for Jewish thought in the twenty-first century"-- provided by publisher

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"Avi Sagi is professor of philosophy at Bar Ilan University in Ramat Gan, Israel, and senior fellow at the Shalom Hartman Institute in Jerusalem, Israel. A philosopher, literary critic, scholar of cultural studies, historian and philosopher of halakhah, public intellectual, social critic, and educator, Sagi has written most lucidly on the challenges that face humanity, Judaism, and Israeli society today. As an intertextual thinker, Sagi integrates numerous strands within contemporary philosophy, while critically engaging Jewish and non-Jewish philosophers. Offering an insightful defense of pluralism and multiculturalism, his numerous writings integrate philosophy, religion, theology, jurisprudence, psychology, art, literature, and politics, charting a new path for Jewish thought in the twenty-first century"-- provided by publisher