Jacob Gordin
The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 3238175 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Ori Werdiger (University of Toronto, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2022 |
| Volume | 13 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 44 |
| Publication date | 2022-01-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Religions (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2077-1444 • E-ISSN: 2077-1444 |
| Publisher | MDPI AG (PUBLISHER • IT) |
| DOI | 10.3390/rel13010044 |
| OpenAlex | W4206050879 |
| Language | EN |
| References cited | 8 |
This article offers an English translation of an essay published in 1946 by Jacob Gordin (1896-1947), a Russian-Jewish philosopher of religion, who is considered the founding figure of the postwar Paris School of Jewish Thought (École de pensée juive de Paris). In "The Religious Crisis in Jewish Thought", Gordin presented a sweeping meta-narrative of the history of Jewish thought, formulated as a history of repeated "religious crises", both existential and intellectual. In Gordin's condensed narrative, these crises could be detected in the life and philosophy of the most canonical Jewish thinkers inside and outside the tradition: from Abraham the biblical patriarch to Hermann Cohen, through a diverse list including the rabbinical sage Elisha Ben-Abuyah, Philo, Halevi, Maimonides, and Spinoza. In an introduction to Gordin's text, I provide a brief biography, locate Gordin in existentialist discourse of the early postwar years, and discuss the affinities between Gordin's "The Religious Crisis" and Levinas's and Sartre's early reflections on the Jewish question
Art · Biography · Epistemology · Existentialism · History of religions · Jewish history · Jewish studies · Jewish thought · Judaism · Literature · Narrative · Theology · History · Jewish and Middle Eastern Studies · Medieval and Classical Philosophy · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Religious studies
| Citation velocity | historical |
|---|---|
| Highly cited | No |