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date: 05 March 2021

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Nearly concurrent with the rise of feminist criticisms in recent decades was the emergence of post-modernism that both endorsed particularity (as against the universality championed by modernity) yet critiqued the totalizing effects inhering in particularity. This chapter begins by tracing the complicated interrelationship of Jewish and secular philosophy in Emmanuel Levinas' thought. It then turns to the ethical philosophy of embodiment and self-mastery by Jonathan Schofer and Chaya Halberstam, to show that postmodern Jewish ethics is simultaneously intensely personal as it is also procedural and communal.

Keywords: post-modernism, particularity, Jewish philosophy, ethical philosophy, Emmanuel Levinas, Jonathan Schofer, Chaya Halberstam, Jewish ethics

Martin Kavka

Martin Kavka (Ph.D. Rice University, 2000) is Associate Professor of Religion at Florida State University. His publications include Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy, which was awarded the Jordan Schnitzer Book Award in Philosophy and Jewish Thought by the Association for Jewish Studies in 2008, numerous essays and articles in Jewish philosophy, and three edited volumes: Tradition in the Public Square: A David Novak Reader (co-edited with Randi Rashkover), Saintly Influence: Edith Wyschogrod and the Possibilities of Philosophy of Religion (co-edited with Eric Boynton), and The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era (co-edited with Zachary Braiterman and David Novak). He is currently co-editor of the Journal of Religious Ethics and is completing a manuscript on the structural problems of covenant theology.

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