...Martin Jay Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2016 E mmanuel levinas has been known to serious students of European philosophy for sixty years, ever since the publication of his influential study of Edmund Husserl, the work Jean-Paul Sartre said had introduced him to phenomenology. Some of his...

... Philosophy and the Israeli Attack on Gaza as they return to Israel from the northern Gaza Strip, January 18,2009, the day that Israel by Jerome Slater declared a unilateral cease-fire in Gaza after three devastating weeks of war. v en str o n g...

...Everett Gendler Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Elem ents of a Philosophy for D iaspora Judaism An Introduction to Rabbi Aaron Samuel Tamaret s “The Exile of the Presence and the Presence of the Exile...

...Stephen J. Stern Copyright © Tikkun magazine 2010 Philosophers of Catastrophe and the Last Kantian in Nazi Germany: How Judaism Redeems Western Philosophy by Stephen J. Stern...

..., even as middlebrow opinion was turning against religion, a noteworthy number of philosophy scholars began to turn toward religion as a source of secular ethical reasoning. This was illustrated by the title and argument of Hent de Vries’s Philosophy and the Turn to Religion (Johns Hopkins University...

... come from? Why am I here? Where am I going?” And these ques­ minds or souls while the rest of nature doesn’t. Some of us draw tions, which lie at the heart of all philosophy and religion, can be the “soul line” at higher animals and some of us draw it at living summed up as: “How do I fit in?” How...

... during the Axial Age: the same time period when money and private property began to penetrate everyday life in precapitalist societies across the globe. The major religions and philosophies of the Axial Age, the historical period beginning in the eighth century bce , emerged in direct confrontation...

... involves tracing the thread of God’s interest in man throughout the fabric of Judaism, is reflected in his contemporary writings. So much of Heschels work is of one cloth. Man Is Not Alone is subtitled A Philosophy o f Re­...

...? Cassandra Conlin. / Conservative lawmakers and business leaders continue to exalt Atlas Shrugged as a kind of right-wing Bible. Why does this book excite so many? Might progressives have something to learn from its call to uncage our creative desire? Rand’s philosophy, “objectivism,” at first glance...

.... In the scriptures of the Vedas and Upanishads, the line between philosophy and religion has always been faint. Four of the six schools of Hindu philosophy are materialistic (if not outright agnostic) systems, in that they do not strictly require the existence of an omniscient godhead standing over and above...

... demands creative dissent in the name of tradition. At home in all walks of Judaism, tremendously learned in Talmud, and in Yiddishkeit generally, he was also fluent in philosophy and modern biblical criticism. His most significant works were popular in nature, their prose beautiful and accessible...

..., an important Vedantic text, we are told that in the depths of their meditation sages saw devatmasakti, felicitously translated as “the God of religion (Skt: deva), the Self of philosophy (Skt: atman), and the energy...

..., as a discipline, Western philosophy seems not to have deeply investigated this constant presence- leaving it up to spirituality, poetry, and psychology to explore this elusive territory. Perhaps for In the rush and babble of the philosophers, maddened by their own music—as they tend to be—this slippery...

.... So much of Heschels work is of one cloth. Man Is Not Alone is subtitled A Philosophy o f Re­ “Much ofHeschel’s work seeks ligion, while God In Search o f Man is subtitled A Philosophy o f Judaism. By virtually begin­ to free Jewish theology from the constraints ofMaimonides’s...

... bonds on him from the Wall Street types and the broken.” We’ve seen deregulation of Wall Street; nonregulation of militarist types and who isn’t clear enough about his own governing Wall Street landed us in a financial catastrophe in Septem ber philosophy? 2008, which this country...

... Roger S. Gottlieb is professor o f philosophy at Worcester Polytechnic Institute. Two o f his recent prize from fossil fuels. Oil, however, will than by creating American-style high con­...

... by integral philosophy. TECHNO-ECONOMIC MODE OF PRODUCTION: Integral values include an enhanced sense of personal responsibility for the problems industrial economy of the world, new insight into the developmental nature of the “internal universe of con­...

... and the art on pages 33, 35, and 38 all come out of the Michigan-based Prison Creative Arts Project. The emphasis on interconnectedness is not unique to restorative justice. There are countless other movements or initiatives for peace and nonviolence that come from the same philosophy. A contribution...

... dhism, Zen, and Shin that were instrumental in A s m y prayer became more attentive and characters become prominent, like a griz­ spreading interest in Far Eastern philosophy in inward, I had less and less to say. I fin a l­ zled senior slowly completing his tasks, or to the West...