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Author Sagi, Abraham, author.

Title Reflections on identity : the Jewish case / Avi Sagi ; translated by Batya Stein.

Publication Info. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016]

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Description 1 online resource.
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Series Emunot : Jewish philosophy and Kabbalah
Note "This volume contains three chapters that were previously published in a Hebrew volume, but, otherwise, it is original and was not previously published in full elsewhere"--Publisher's email.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents 1. From an essentialist to a multicultural identity -- 2. A critique of the Jewish identity discourse -- 3. Primordial identity: the Jewish case, part two -- 4. Between a rights discourse and an identity discourse -- 5. "Religion and State": a critical analysis -- 6. On exile, strangers, and sovereignty: identity in the biblical tradition.
Summary "This book deals with the meaning of identity in general and Jewish identity in particular. Different notions of Jewish identity have been formulated in the history of Jewish thought, many of them supporting a rigid and one-sided view of it. Relying on a cultural historical analysis of various theoretical and empirical dimensions of this concept, the book shows that the term Jewish identity denotes a field covering a broad range of options for Jewish existence. Common to all is the affirmation of Jewish identity, but not necessarily one single approach as the sole possible course of Jewish life"-- Provided by publisher.
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Subject Jews -- Identity -- Philosophy.
Jews -- Identity.
Philosophy.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Stein, Batya, translator.
Other Form: Print version: Sagi, Abraham. Reflections on identity. Brighton, MA : Academic Studies Press, [2016] 9781618115348 (DLC) 2016037749
ISBN 9781618115355 (electronic book)
1618115359 (electronic book)
9781618115348 (hardcover)