Abstract
Rosenzweig and Levinas (along with Buber and Cohen) are the principle parents of the founding members of this Network, and Gibbs’ book brings them into close dialogue with each other, with their peers in late modern/early postmodern thought, and with us. This is therefore a very important book and a very important occasion, for both the Academy and the Postmodern Jewish Philosophy Network. All are welcome. So please come!
For a warmup, to get you ready, we enclose a preliminary review of Gibbs’ book, by Martin Srajek (he’ll be offering different words at the Boston event). In a future issue, we’ll review the Boston Gibbs event as a whole.
Aryeh Botwinick also announces: Sunday night, 9:15pm, in Robert Gibbs very own room at the Copley, Aryeh B. is hosting a Talmud and Postmodernism study session for Network members and others. Please review Aryeh’s contribution to our Network Vol. 3.2 (on “Overdetermination”) – but this session will be on new textual material. (If you need details ahead of time, please call Aryeh at ____.)
Meanwhile, for a warmdown, we complete this special issue with a reprint of a longer version of a remarkable paper Nobert Samuelson delivered at the AAR conference in Chicago. While the paper is not about postmodern thought, its importance for a number of us who were there lies in its success in overviewing the stages of Jewish philosophy that lead up to the one we presume to think we occupy! We hope that someday some member of this Network will send us an epilogue on postmodern Jewish philosophy worthy of the rest of Norbert’s paper.
Recommended Citation
"Old Series: Volume 3, Number 4 (December 1994)." Journal of Textual Reasoning Old Series: Vol. 3 (1994): 134-175. https://scholarworks.wm.edu/jtr/vol0/iss3/4