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Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion Hardcover - 2012 - 1st Edition

by Daniel H. Weiss

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Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) is widely regarded as the most influential representative of twentieth-century Jewish philosophy, and his Religion of Reason is often described as one of the most significant attempts to wrestle with the competing claims of philosophy and the Jewish religious tradition since Maimonides' Guide of the Perplexed. Nevertheless, Cohen has often been treated merely as an historical precursor to later Jewish thinkers like Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas.

Daniel H. Weiss offers an insightful new reading of Religion of Reason, arguing that the style and method of Cohen's final work have long been fundamentally misunderstood. Previous readers, puzzled by the seemingly incompatible perspectives within Religion of Reason, have tended either to uphold one or another of the text's 'voices' or to criticize the text for intellectual incoherence. Weiss demonstrates that the multiplicity of Cohen's text is an essential element of its rational and communicative purposes. Drawing upon Kierkegaard as a theorist of indirect communication, he shows how Cohen combines the 'incompatible voices' of philosophy and of Scripture in order to convey religious and ethical ideas-such as the unique God, the other as You, and the messianic future-that would be distorted in a fully consistent, single-voiced mode of thought and communication.

While focusing on the details and style of Cohen's text, Paradox and the Prophets also explores the broader philosophical claim that Religion of Reason, far from representing an outdated mode of thought, serves as a model for contemporary efforts to reason about religion and ethics.

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  • Title Paradox and the Prophets: Hermann Cohen and the Indirect Communication of Religion
  • Author Daniel H. Weiss
  • Binding Hardcover
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 352
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Oxford University Press, USA, New York
  • Date 2012-06-14
  • Features Bibliography, Dust Cover, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780199895908 / 0199895902
  • Weight 1.32 lbs (0.60 kg)
  • Dimensions 9.3 x 6.3 x 1.3 in (23.62 x 16.00 x 3.30 cm)
  • Themes
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Religion - Philosophy, Cohen, Hermann
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2011037437
  • Dewey Decimal Code 296.3

About the author

Polonsky-Coexist Lecturer in Jewish Studies, Cambridge University

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