Description: Exploring the subject of Jewish philosophy as a controversial construction site in the project of modernity, this book examines the implications of the different and often conflicting notions at stake in the debate on the question of what Jewish philosophy is or could be.
Brief description: Willi Goetschel is Professor of German and Philosophy at the University of Toronto.
Review Quotes: "Goetschel's new book is provocative, compelling, and profound. Tracing the influence of the thought of Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Rosenzweig, and Susman, among others, he shows how philosophy's claim to universality is necessarily undermined through its complex and troubled relation to Jewish philosophy This book dramatically and definitively refigures the distinction between Greek and Hebrew thought upon which contemporary Western philosophy rests. . . . Essential reading for anyone interested in how philosophy became what it is . . . what it still could become."-----Moira Gatens, --University of Sidney