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Article: Recollection, Zakhor, Anamnesis: On Ira Stone's Reading Levinas/Reading Talmud.(Review)
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- CrossCurrents - The Journal of Addiction and Mental Health
- Article date:
- December 22, 1999
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The greatest problem which currently faces modern or postmodern Jewish thought in America is its lack of relevance to the Jewish community at large. There are good historical reasons for Jews today to be suspicious of anything that falls under the banner of "thought." Looking back upon the venerable tradition of Jewish philosophy stretching from Moses Mendelssohn to Emmanuel Levinas, we see a tradition of apologetics. These German Jews and their French heirs are not simply defending Judaism to the dominant culture. Additionally,
the way in which they treat Judaism is determined by the approaches and the questions of that culture, and notably its philosophers: Wolff, ...
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