{"product_id":"9780253108517","title":"Interim Judaism: Jewish Thought in a Century of Crisis","description":"\u003cp\u003eInterim JudaismJewish Thought in a Century of\u003cbr\u003e Crisis\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael L. Morgan\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eProbes the impact of\u003cbr\u003e the 20th century on Jewish belief and practice.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eConfronting the\u003cbr\u003e challenges of the 20th century, from modernity and the Great War to the Holocaust\u003cbr\u003e and postmodern culture, Jewish thinkers have wrestled with such fundamental issues\u003cbr\u003e as redemption and revelation, eternity and history, messianism and politics. From\u003cbr\u003e the turn of the century through the 1920s, European Jewish intellectuals confronted\u003cbr\u003e alienation and the challenges of modernity by seeking secure grounds for a\u003cbr\u003e meaningful life. After the Holocaust and the fall of Nazism, the rich results of\u003cbr\u003e their thinking -- on topics such as transcendence, redemption, revelation, and\u003cbr\u003e politics -- were reinterpreted in an atmosphere of increasing disillusion and\u003cbr\u003e fragmentation. In Interim Judaism, Michael L. Morgan traces the evolution of this\u003cbr\u003e shift in values, as expressed in the work of social thinkers, novelists, artists,\u003cbr\u003e and poets as well as philosophers and theologians at the beginning and end of the\u003cbr\u003e century. Focusing on the problem of objectivity, the experience of the transcendent,\u003cbr\u003e and the relationship between redemption and politics, he argues that the outcome for\u003cbr\u003e contemporary Jews is a pragmatic style of religiosity that has abandoned traditional\u003cbr\u003e conceptions of Judaism and is searching and waiting for new ones, a condition that\u003cbr\u003e he describes as \"interim Judaism.\"\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eMichael L. Morgan is\u003cbr\u003e Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University, Bloomington. He is\u003cbr\u003e author of Platonic Piety and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought (Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e Press). He has edited The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim; Classics in Moral and\u003cbr\u003e Political Theory; Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy (Indiana University\u003cbr\u003e Press); and A Holocaust Reader: Responses to the Nazi Extermination. With Paul\u003cbr\u003e Franks, he has translated and edited Franz Rosenzweig: Philosophical and Theological\u003cbr\u003e Writings.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003ePublished with the generous support of Hebrew Union\u003cbr\u003e College--Jewish Institute of Religion, Cincinnati\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eJuly 2001128\u003cbr\u003e pages, 5 1\/2 x 8 1\/4cloth 0-253-33856-5 $35.00 L \/ £26.50paper\u003cbr\u003e 0-253-21441-6 $15.95 s \/ £12.50 \u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Indiana University Press","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47112506704112,"sku":"9780253108517","price":10.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780253108517_p0.jpg?v=1763681732","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780253108517","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}