On personal and public concerns : essays in Jewish philosophy /

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Author / Creator:Schweid, Eliezer, author.
Imprint:Boston : Academic Studies Press, 2014.
©2014
Description:1 online resource (230 pages).
Language:English
Series:Reference library of Jewish intellectual history
Reference library of Jewish intellectual history.
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Format: E-Resource Book
URL for this record:http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/11240112
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Other authors / contributors:Levin, Leonard, 1946- editor, translator.
ISBN:9781618114464
1618114468
9781618114457
161811445X
Notes:Includes index.
In English.
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Summary:Eliezer Schweid's career as philosopher, scholar, educator and public intellectual has spanned the history of the State of Israel from the pre-war Yishuv period to the present. In these essays he recalls his formative years in the Zionist youth and the Hebrew University. He reflects on the existential loneliness of the modern Jew. He examines the perennial problem of theodicy through a Jewish lens in its broadest human parameters. Finally, he offers a challenging critique of the postmodern culture of the "global village," in which the marketplace and skepticism have crowded out humane values rooted in the traditions of historical culture.
Other form:Print version: Schweid, Eliezer. On personal and public concerns. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, 2014 9781618114457
Standard no.:10.1515/9781618114464.