Author : Irene Tucker
Publisher : punctum books
ISBN 13 : 0998237590
Total Pages : 92 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (982 download)
Book Synopsis A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler by : Irene Tucker
Download or read book A Brief Genealogy of Jewish Republicanism: Parting Ways with Judith Butler written by Irene Tucker and published by punctum books. This book was released on 2016 with total page 92 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This Christian conception of belief structures the most familiar understandings of modern secularism, articulated most famously by John Locke in his "Letter Concerning Toleration." Tucker reads Locke's "Letter"' alongside Jewish philosopher/rabbi Moses Mendelssohn's 1783 critique of Locke, Jerusalem: Or On Religious Power and Judaism, and the Jewish tradition of the minyan, making a case for the existence of an alternative history of publicness borrowing from Jewish conceptions of communal life and the proper relations of actions and ideas. In throwing light on a genealogy of Jewish practices aimed at the deliberate creation of collectives constituted by their grappling with contingent, historical time, Tucker argues for the existence of a Jewish tradition of republicanism, of democracy.