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1 online resource (viii, 356 pages). |
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polychrome |
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text file |
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Jewish literature and culture
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Jewish literature and culture.
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| Note |
Proceedings of a conference held Feb. 25-26, 2001 at Arizona State University. |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| Contents |
Loss, presence, and Gabirol's desire: medieval Jewish philosophy and the possibility of a feminist ground / Sarah Pessin -- Thinking desire in Gersonides and Spinoza / Idit Dobbs-Weinstein -- Spinoza's ethics of the liberation of desire / Heidi Miriam Ravven -- The lonely woman of faith under late capitalism; or Jewish feminism in Marxist perspective / Jean Axelrad Cahan -- Dependency and vulnerability: Jewish and feminist existentialist constructions of the human / Leora Batnitzky -- From Eros to maternity: love, death, and "the feminine" in the philosophy of Emmanuel Levinas / Claire Elise Katz -- To know what is: feminism, metaphysics, and epistemology / T.M. Rudavsky -- Into the woods: killer mothers, feminist ethics, and the problem of evil / Laurie Zoloth -- Judaism's body politic / Nancy K. Levene -- Feminism and the Rabbinic conception of justice / Suzanne Last Stone -- Reconstructing divine power: post-Holocaust Jewish theology, feminism, and process philosophy / Sandra B. Lubarsky -- Theological desire: feminism, philosophy, and exegetical Jewish thought / Randi Rashkover. |
| Summary |
This volume is the first systematic attempt to interpret the Jewish philosophical tradition in light of feminist philosophy and to engage feminist philosophy from the perspective of Jewish philosophy. The 13 original essays presented here demonstrate that no analysis of Jewish philosophy (historical or constructive) can be adequate without attention to gender categories. They cover the entire Jewish philosophic tradition from Philo, through Maimonides, to Levinas, and they rethink the sub-disciplines of Jewish philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and the. |
| Local Note |
eBooks on EBSCOhost EBSCO eBook Subscription Academic Collection - North America |
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Jewish philosophy -- Congresses.
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Jewish philosophy. |
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Feminist theory -- Israel -- Congresses.
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Feminist theory. |
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Israel. |
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Sex role -- Philosophy -- Congresses.
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Sex role -- Philosophy. |
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Sex role. |
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Sex role -- Israel -- Congresses.
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Electronic books.
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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Feminist theory. |
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Gender roles. |
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Conference papers and proceedings.
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| Added Author |
Tirosh-Samuelson, Hava, 1950-
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Women and gender in Jewish philosophy. Bloomington : Indiana University Press, ©2004 0253343968 0253216737 (DLC) 2003021946 (OCoLC)53178483 |
| ISBN |
025311103X |
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9780253111036 |
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0253343968 |
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9780253343963 |
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0253216737 |
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9780253216731 |
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