Alex Ozar
Biographic Data
| ID | 2832800 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Alex Ozar |
| GIVEN NAMES | Alex |
| FAMILY NAME | Ozar |
| SIGNATURE | OZAR A |
| AFFILIATIONS | Yale University |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 3 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 3 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2023 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Joseph Soloveitchik as Weimar Intellectual and Prophetic Ethicist
This article is an effort to advance the way Joseph Soloveitchik is read, in large part by way of (re)situating his work within its original, though not only, context: Before Soloveitchik was a leading figure of post-World-War-II Orthodox Judaism in America, he was a Berlin-trained, Weimar-era European philosopher, and his work is decisively animated, I show, by his concerns as the latter. I focus in particular on Soloveitchik's The Halakhic Mind…
The Emergence of Max Scheler: Understanding Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Philosophical Anthropology
An idea's genealogy is not the idea itself, and still less does an idea's historical context exhaust its potentialities for meaning. The excavation of sources and influences is then for the historian of ideas not an end in itself; it is more properly the inauguration, not the consummation, of efforts in intellectual history. But genealogical investigation does matter, because its vertical depth can illuminate the contours requisite for horizontal…
M ichael W yschogrod's Messianic Z ionism: A Non‐Fanatical Interpretation
This essay presents an integrated account of M ichael W yschogrod's Z ionism as a function of his broader theological anthropology, eschatology, and carnal interpretation of I srael's election. Against L eora B atnitzky, I show that W yschogrod's Z ionism, while definitively messianic, is decidedly not fanatical or fundamentalist. Against M eir S oloveichik, I show that W yschogrod has maintained this non‐fanatical messianism consistently through…
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M ichael W yschogrod's Messianic Z ionism: A Non‐Fanatical Interpretation
This essay presents an integrated account of M ichael W yschogrod's Z ionism as a function of his broader theological anthropology, eschatology, and carnal interpretation of I srael's election. Against L eora B atnitzky, I show that W yschogrod's Z ionism, while definitively messianic, is decidedly not fanatical or fundamentalist. Against M eir S oloveichik, I show that W yschogrod has maintained this non‐fanatical messianism consistently through…
The Emergence of Max Scheler: Understanding Rabbi Joseph Soloveitchik's Philosophical Anthropology
An idea's genealogy is not the idea itself, and still less does an idea's historical context exhaust its potentialities for meaning. The excavation of sources and influences is then for the historian of ideas not an end in itself; it is more properly the inauguration, not the consummation, of efforts in intellectual history. But genealogical investigation does matter, because its vertical depth can illuminate the contours requisite for horizontal…
Joseph Soloveitchik as Weimar Intellectual and Prophetic Ethicist
This article is an effort to advance the way Joseph Soloveitchik is read, in large part by way of (re)situating his work within its original, though not only, context: Before Soloveitchik was a leading figure of post-World-War-II Orthodox Judaism in America, he was a Berlin-trained, Weimar-era European philosopher, and his work is decisively animated, I show, by his concerns as the latter. I focus in particular on Soloveitchik's The Halakhic Mind…
Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies (3 works) · Philosophy (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Judaism (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Sociology (2 works) · Archaeology (1 works) · Art (1 works) · Consummation (1 works)