Hermann Cohen's Ethics (Studies in European Judaism) [Hardcover]

Robert Gibbs (Editor), Giuseppe Veltri (Editor)

Book Description

Publication Date: July 30, 2006 | ISBN-10: 9004153187 | ISBN-13: 978-9004153189

The essays assembled here represent the leading Hermann Cohen scholars from the United States, Canada, Italy, Switzerland, Germany, the Netherlands, and Israel. Emerging from their efforts is a new set of explorations both in Cohen's own system and also in his relation to a wide-range of subsequent thinkers. They open Cohen's "Ethics of Pure Will" in two ways. First, they show us the deep questions that are operating within Cohen's texts, and second they raise questions for ethics itself, particularly in relation to Jewish tradition. That specific topic, the primacy of ethics for Judaism, received one of its most philosophically rigorous treatments in Cohen's work, where thinking of the relation of ethics and Judaism became a truly philosophical task.

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About the Author

Robert Gibbs, Ph.D. (1986), is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Toronto. He has published widely in Contemporary Continental Philosophy and Jewish Philosophy, and is author of Why Ethics? Signs of Responsibilities (Princeton, 2000).

Product Details

• Hardcover: 264 pages
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub (July 30, 2006)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 9004153187
• ISBN-13: 978-9004153189
• Product Dimensions: 9.8 x 6.6 x 0.9 inches
• Shipping Weight: 1.4 pounds (View shipping rates and policies)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #5,456,843 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)