Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy by Hava Tirosh-Samuelson

Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy 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. Written by Jewish women who are trained in 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. The essays cover the entire Jewish philosophic tradition from Philo, through Maimonides, to Levinas, and they rethink the subdisciplines of Jewish philosophy, including metaphysics, epistemology, ethics, political theory, and theology. This volume offers an invitation for a new conversation between feminist philosophy and Jewish philosophy as well as a novel contribution to contemporary Jewish philosophy. Contributors are Leora Batnitzky, Jean Axelrad Cahan, Idit Dobbs-Weinstein, Claire Elise Katz, Nancy Levene, Sandra B. Lubarsky, Sarah Pessin, Randi Rashkover, Heidi Miriam Ravven, T. M. Rudavsky, Suzanne Last Stone, Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, and Laurie Zoloth.

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is Associate Professor of History at Arizona State University. She is author of Between Worlds: The Life and Thought of Rabbi David ben Judah Messer Leon and Happiness in Premodern Judaism: Virtue, Knowledge, and Well-Being and editor of Judaism and Ecology: Created World and Revealed Word.

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ISBN 13	9780253216731
ISBN 10	0253216737
Title	Women and Gender in Jewish Philosophy
Author	Hava Tirosh-Samuelson
Series	Jewish Literature And Culture
Condition	Unavailable
Binding Type	Paperback
Publisher	Indiana University Press
Year published	2004-06-18
Number of pages	364
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