Elias Sacks
Biographic Data
| ID | 7337499 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Elias Sacks |
| GIVEN NAMES | Elias |
| FAMILY NAME | Sacks |
| SIGNATURE | SACKS E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of Colorado Boulder |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 4 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 0 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2014 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 0 |
Exegesis and Politics Between East and West: Nachman Krochmal, Moses Mendelssohn, and Modern Jewish Thought
Recent scholarship on modern Jewish thought has sought to overcome the field’s Germanocentrism by recovering diverse visions of Jewish life across eastern and western Europe. While studies typically emphasize either striking differences or surprising affinities between these settings, I use the neglected eastern European philosopher Nachman Krochmal to highlight a strategy of creative appropriation and redirection—an eastern European strategy of …
Is God Eternal? Revisiting Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig on Reason, Revelation, and the Name of God
This essay calls for a reassessment of one of the best‐known episodes in modern Jewish thought: the debate between Moses Mendelssohn (1729‐1786) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886‐1929) about how to translate the name of God. Ostensibly writing to celebrate the two‐hundredth anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, Rosenzweig famously criticizes his predecessor's decision in his German translation of the Pentateuch to render God's name as “the Eternal” and “t…
Law, Ethics, and the Needs of History: Mendelssohn, Krochmal, and Moral Philosophy
Although the role of ethics in modern Jewish thought has been widely explored, major works by foundational philosophers remain largely absent from such discussions. This essay contributes to the recovery of these voices, focusing on the Hebrew writings of Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) and Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840). I argue that these texts reveal the existence of a shared ethical project animating these founding philosophical voices of Jewish …
Spinoza, Maimonides and the Politics of Prophecy
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
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Spinoza, Maimonides and the Politics of Prophecy
»Vielmehr bietet [der Kommentar] auf höchstem Niveau eine substantielle Auseinandersetzung mit den Hintergründen, den Zusammenhängen, der Theorie und der Praxis des Grundgesetzes. Besseres lässt sich von einem Verfassungskommentar nicht sagen.“ Herbert Günther Staaatsanzeiger für das Land Hessen 2018 (50), 1494–1495
Law, Ethics, and the Needs of History: Mendelssohn, Krochmal, and Moral Philosophy
Although the role of ethics in modern Jewish thought has been widely explored, major works by foundational philosophers remain largely absent from such discussions. This essay contributes to the recovery of these voices, focusing on the Hebrew writings of Moses Mendelssohn (1729–1786) and Nachman Krochmal (1785–1840). I argue that these texts reveal the existence of a shared ethical project animating these founding philosophical voices of Jewish …
Is God Eternal? Revisiting Mendelssohn and Rosenzweig on Reason, Revelation, and the Name of God
This essay calls for a reassessment of one of the best‐known episodes in modern Jewish thought: the debate between Moses Mendelssohn (1729‐1786) and Franz Rosenzweig (1886‐1929) about how to translate the name of God. Ostensibly writing to celebrate the two‐hundredth anniversary of Mendelssohn's birth, Rosenzweig famously criticizes his predecessor's decision in his German translation of the Pentateuch to render God's name as “the Eternal” and “t…
Exegesis and Politics Between East and West: Nachman Krochmal, Moses Mendelssohn, and Modern Jewish Thought
Recent scholarship on modern Jewish thought has sought to overcome the field’s Germanocentrism by recovering diverse visions of Jewish life across eastern and western Europe. While studies typically emphasize either striking differences or surprising affinities between these settings, I use the neglected eastern European philosopher Nachman Krochmal to highlight a strategy of creative appropriation and redirection—an eastern European strategy of …
Philosophy (4 works) · Judaism (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Theology (3 works) · Art (2 works) · Epistemology (2 works) · Literature (2 works) · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism (2 works) · Politics (2 works)