On Personal and Public Concerns : : Essays in Jewish Philosophy / / Eliezer Schweid; ed. by Levin Leonard.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Academic Studies Press Backlist eBook-Package 2008-2015
• VerfasserIn: Schweid, Eliezer,
• HerausgeberIn: Leonard, Levin,
• Place / Publishing House: Boston, MA : : Academic Studies Press, , [2014]; ©2014
• Year of Publication: 2014
• Language: English
• Series: Reference Library of Jewish Intellectual History
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (220 p.)
• Other title: Frontmatter --; Acknowledgements --; Contents --; Editor’s Introduction --; A Personal Viewpoint: Autobiographical Essay My Way in the Research and Teaching of Jewish Thought --; Judaism and the Lonely Jew --; Faith: Its Trusting and Testing – The Question of God’s Righteousness --; History in the Postmodern Age --; The Idolatrous Values and Rituals of the Global Village --; Index
• Format: Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.
• ISBN: 9781618114464; 9783110688146; 9783111023700
• DOI: 10.1515/9781618114464
• Access: restricted access
• Hierarchical level: Monograph
• Statement of Responsibility: Eliezer Schweid; ed. by Levin Leonard.

Eliezer Schweid’s career as philosopher, scholar, educator and public intellectual has spanned the history of the State of Israel from the pre-war Yishuv period to the present. In these essays he recalls his formative years in the Zionist youth and the Hebrew University. He reflects on the existential loneliness of the modern Jew. He examines the perennial problem of theodicy through a Jewish lens in its broadest human parameters. Finally, he offers a challenging critique of the postmodern culture of the “global village,” in which the marketplace and skepticism have crowded out humane values rooted in the traditions of historical culture.