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Article: Wrestling with an angel.(Jewish Philosophy as a Guide to Life: Rosenzweig, Buber, Levinas, Wittgenstein)(Book review)
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- First Things: A Monthly Journal of Religion and Public Life
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- October 1, 2008
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JEWISH PHILOSOPHY AS A GUIDE TO LIFE: ROSENZWEIG, BUBER, LEVINAS, WITTGENSTEIN by HILARY PUTNAM Indiana University Press, 136 pages, $19.95
A FUNNY THING happened to Hilary Putnam on the way to joining the front ranks of American philosophers. He began his long career, the last thirty-five years of it spent at Harvard, laboring in the far reaches of scientific epistemology, particularly the philosophy of physics and mathematical logic. He went on to command respect for his illuminations of the philosophy of mind and philosophy of language. For most of that career, he was the image of an analytic thinker, a scientific materialist, and a self-described ...
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