Goldin Simha
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780719095771
- eISBN:
- 9781781707852
- Item type:
- book
- Publisher:
- Manchester University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7228/manchester/9780719095771.001.0001
- Subject:
- History, European Medieval History
In this study, the various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves in the context of the lapse into another religion will be researched fully for the first time. We will attempt to understand ...
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In this study, the various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves in the context of the lapse into another religion will be researched fully for the first time. We will attempt to understand whether they regarded the issue of conversion with self-confidence or with suspicion, whether their attitude was based on a clear theological position or on doubt and the coping with the problem as part of the process of socialization will be fully analysed. In this way, we will better understand how the Jews saw their own identity whilst living as a minority among the Christian majority, whose own self-confidence was constantly becoming stronger from the 10th to the 14th century until they eventually ousted the Jews completely from the places they lived in, England, France and large parts of Germany. This aspect of Jewish self-identification, written by a person who converted to Christianity, can help clarify a number of issues discussed by historians at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era.Less
In this study, the various aspects of the way the Jews regarded themselves in the context of the lapse into another religion will be researched fully for the first time. We will attempt to understand whether they regarded the issue of conversion with self-confidence or with suspicion, whether their attitude was based on a clear theological position or on doubt and the coping with the problem as part of the process of socialization will be fully analysed. In this way, we will better understand how the Jews saw their own identity whilst living as a minority among the Christian majority, whose own self-confidence was constantly becoming stronger from the 10th to the 14th century until they eventually ousted the Jews completely from the places they lived in, England, France and large parts of Germany. This aspect of Jewish self-identification, written by a person who converted to Christianity, can help clarify a number of issues discussed by historians at the end of the Middle Ages and the beginning of the Modern Era.
Sarah Hammerschlag
- Published in print:
- 2016
- Published Online:
- September 2017
- ISBN:
- 9780231170598
- eISBN:
- 9780231542135
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Columbia University Press
- DOI:
- 10.7312/columbia/9780231170598.003.0001
- Subject:
- Philosophy, History of Philosophy
Raises the central issues of the book by using Derrida’s speech at the 1998 Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française as a means to lay out Derrida’s relation to Levinas, focusing ...
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Raises the central issues of the book by using Derrida’s speech at the 1998 Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française as a means to lay out Derrida’s relation to Levinas, focusing particularly on the role or irony for each and how it intervenes in their respective relations to philosophy, religion and literature.Less
Raises the central issues of the book by using Derrida’s speech at the 1998 Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française as a means to lay out Derrida’s relation to Levinas, focusing particularly on the role or irony for each and how it intervenes in their respective relations to philosophy, religion and literature.
Edward Baring and Peter E. Gordon (eds)
- Published in print:
- 2014
- Published Online:
- May 2015
- ISBN:
- 9780823262090
- eISBN:
- 9780823266388
- Item type:
- chapter
- Publisher:
- Fordham University Press
- DOI:
- 10.5422/fordham/9780823262090.003.0001
- Subject:
- Religion, Philosophy of Religion
The introduction provides a brief account of the philosophical, biographical, and scholarly issues surrounding the question of religion in Derrida's work. It suggests that a study of Derrida's ...
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The introduction provides a brief account of the philosophical, biographical, and scholarly issues surrounding the question of religion in Derrida's work. It suggests that a study of Derrida's engagement with religion brings to the fore many of the themes that have marked his work, including politics, ethics, alterity etc. as well as providing a privileged entry point for considering scholarly debates about deconstruction. Giving a brief account of the ways in which religious questions have left their mark on the reception of Derrida within the Anglo-American context, it considers ways in which his work has both invited and resisted its insertion into traditions of religious thinking. It also pays attention to the ways in which Derrida marshalled his Jewish and Algerian heritage in his later autobiographical writings and considers the implications for thinking about religion, faith, and atheism.Less
The introduction provides a brief account of the philosophical, biographical, and scholarly issues surrounding the question of religion in Derrida's work. It suggests that a study of Derrida's engagement with religion brings to the fore many of the themes that have marked his work, including politics, ethics, alterity etc. as well as providing a privileged entry point for considering scholarly debates about deconstruction. Giving a brief account of the ways in which religious questions have left their mark on the reception of Derrida within the Anglo-American context, it considers ways in which his work has both invited and resisted its insertion into traditions of religious thinking. It also pays attention to the ways in which Derrida marshalled his Jewish and Algerian heritage in his later autobiographical writings and considers the implications for thinking about religion, faith, and atheism.
