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Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter

Being Jewish/Reading Heidegger: An Ontological Encounter

Scult, Allen

Hardcover

Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy

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ISBN10: 0823223116
ISBN13: 9780823223114
Publisher: Fordham Univ Pr
Published: Jul 15 2004
Pages: 186
Weight: 0.81
Height: 0.76 Width: 5.50 Depth: 8.84
Language: English

This innovative book investigates being Jewish not as a sectarian religiosity but as a way of being-in-the-world particularly suited to understanding Heidegger's early phenomenology. At its core is an intimate engagement with sacred texts, which grounds being Jewish in a way of life constituted as a way of reading--a way of reading transmitted to succeeding generations as a passionate teaching.

Allen Scult argues that Heidegger was similarly involved in a passionate attempt to introduce his students to philosophical practice through a personal engagement with the words of Aristotle. Scult traces the hermeneutical affinity-- even intimacy--between Judaism as a way of life, grounded in an intense interpretive relationship to the Torah; and Heidegger's view of philosophical practice, as a similarly intense interpretive relationship to the founding texts of Western philosophy.

In tracing the dynamics of this relationship in Heideggerian and Jewish hermeneutics, Scult not only finds mutually enlightening points of contact between the two, but also uncovers new ways of understanding how Heidegger's fundamental ontology is grounded in the lived experience of religion.

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