ISRAELI / JEWISH THOUGHT

SUB-PAGES

Topics:

• Israeli / Jewish Literature

ASSOCIATIONS

• New Israeli Philosophy Society

• Society of Textual Reasoning

CONFERENCES

2007:

• Anti-Semitism and English Culture: the Middle Ages to the Present Day, Birkbeck College, University of London, July 9-11
• Kabbalah and Modernity, Centre for the History of Hermetic Philosophy and Related Currents, University of Amsterdam, July 4–6

2006:

• Messianism and the Law, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, May 11-12

• On the Outlook: Figures of the Messianic, Institute of Jewish Studies, University of Antwerp, May 10-11

2005:

• Annual Conference, New Israeli Philosophy Society, University of Haifa, February 17

2004:

2003:

2002:

2001:

2000:

COURSES

• Johns Hopkins University: Modern Jewish Thought (Hollander)

• McMaster University: Modern Jewish Thought (Hollander)

• Purdue University: Theory and the Holocaust (Felluga)

JOURNALS

• Australian Journal of Jewish Studies

• Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy

• Journal of Textual Reasoning

• Philosophia: Philosophical Quarterly of Israel

PHILOSOPHERS / THEORISTS

• Ancient (Classical):
• Medieval:

  • Saadia Gaon (892 - 942)

  • Moshe ben Maimon [Maimonides] (1135 - 1204)

• Early Modern:

  • Baruch Spinoza (1632 - 1677)

  • Moses Mendelssohn (1729 – 1786)

• Nineteenth Century:
• Twentieth Century:

  • Analytic:

  • Continental:

    • Idealism:

    • Marxism:

      • Walter Benjamin (1892 - 1940)

      • Max Horkheimer (1895 - 1971)

      • Erich Fromm (1900 - 1980) (see also Psychoanalysis)

      • Theodor Adorno (1903 - 1969)

    • Phenomenology / Existentialism / Hermeneutics:
      • Edmund Husserl (1859 - 1938)
      • Martin Buber (1878 - 1965)

      • Franz Rosenzweig (1886 - 1929)

      • Hannah Arendt (1906 - 1975)
      • Emmanuel Levinas (1906 - 1995)

    • Psychoanalysis:

      • Sigmund Freud (1856 - 1939)

      • Harold Bloom (1930 - ) (see also Deconstruction)

    • (Post-)Structuralisms:

      • Deconstruction:

        • Geoffrey Hartman (1929 - )

        • Jacques Derrida (1930 - 2005)

        • Harold Bloom (1930 - ) (see also Psychoanalysis)

      • Deleuzean Theory:

      • Dialogism:

      • Foucauldian Theory:

      • Semiotics / Semiology / Structuralism:

      • Structuralist Marxism:

      • Structuralist Psychoanalysis:

  • Others:

    • Hermann Cohen (1842 - 1918)

    • Henri Bergson (1859 - 1941)

    • Leo Strauss (1899 - 1973)

    • Hans Jonas (1903 - 1993)

SOURCES: PRIMARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

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• Selected Individual Works:

  • Bauman, Zygmunt. 

  • Berkovits, Eliezer.  “What is Jewish Philosophy?”  Tradition 3.127 (1961): .

  • Boyarin, Daniel.  "What Does a Jew Want?  or, the Political Meaning of the Phallus."  The Psychoanalysis of Race.  Ed. Christopher Lane.  New York: Columbia UP, 1998.  211-240.

  • Boyarin, Daniel, and Jonathan Boyarin.  "Diaspora: Generation and the Ground of Jewish Identity."  Critical Inquiry 19 (1993): .

  • Jacobson, Matthew F. 

  • Scholem, Gershom.  Major Trends in Jewish Mysticism.  1941.

On-Line:

SOURCES: SECONDARY

Off-Line:

• Anthologies:

  • Frank, Daniel H., and Oliver Leaman, eds.  Cambridge Companion to Medieval Jewish Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2003.

  • Frank, Daniel H., and Oliver Leaman, eds.  History of Jewish Philosophy.  London: Routledge, 2003.

  • Morgan, Michael L., and Peter Eli Gordon, eds.  Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy.  Cambridge: CUP, 2007.

• Selected Individual Works:

  • Eaglestone, Robert.  The Holocaust and the Postmodern.  Oxford: OUP, 2004.

  • Husik, Isaac.  History of Medieval Jewish Philosophy. 

  • Samuelson, Norbert M.  Jewish Philosophy: an Historical Introduction.  London: Continuum, 2003.

  • Seeskin, Kenneth.  Maimonides on the Origin of the World.  Cambridge: CUP, 2005.

On-Line:

• Wikipedia Encyclopedia: Jewish Philosophy

• Zonta, Mauro: Influence of Arabic and Islamic Philosophy on Judaic Thought (Stanford Encyclopedia of Philosophy)

UNIVERSITY PROGRAMMES / RESEARCH CENTRES / RESEARCH PROJECTS

Israel:

• Ben Gurion University: Department of Jewish Thought: Goldstein Goren International Center for Jewish Thought

• University of Haifa:

  • Department of Philosophy

  • Literary Theory Reading List

• Hebrew University of Jerusalem: Department of Philosophy

• Tel Aviv University: 

  • Department of Jewish Philosophy

  • Department of Philosophy

  • Diaspora Research Institute

  • School of Philosophy

Elsewhere:

• Europe:
  • Belgium: Universiteit Antwerpen: Instituut voor Joodse Studies
• USA:
  • University of California, Los Angeles: Center for Jewish Studies
  • Yeshiva University: Department of Jewish Philosophy

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