Martin Shuster
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism
How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism
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In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster explores Judaism as an anachronism, considering questions of ultimate reality, human suffering, and the relationship between Judaism and the world. He offers novel readings of classic figures and introduces other voices, drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought. The book examines the intellectual scope of Levinas's proposal and assesses the world and our place in it, revealing the stakes for Judaism and the world.
Format: Paperback / softback
Length: 258 pages
Publication date: 06 April 2021
Publisher: Indiana University Press
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more.
Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is entangled with the world.
Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter Benjamin to Stanley Cavell.
How to Measure a World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an assessment of the world and our place in it.
A particular understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the relationship between humans and their world.
In the end, Levinas's suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically, revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.
Weight: 290g
Dimension: 126 x 203 x 19 (mm)
ISBN-13: 9780253054548
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