1st Edition

The Philosophy of Joseph B. Soloveitchik

By Heshey Zelcer, Mark Zelcer Copyright 2021
270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

270 Pages
by Routledge

Providing a concise but comprehensive overview of Joseph B. Soloveitchik’s larger philosophical program, this book studies one of the most important modern Orthodox Jewish thinkers. It incorporates much relevant biographical, philosophical, religious, legal, and historical background so that the content and difficult philosophical concepts are easily accessible. The volume describes his view of... Read more

Acknowledgments

Notes to the Reader

Foreword

1. Overview

2. Biography

3. Background

4. Soloveitchik’s Main Philosophical Writings

5. Soloveitchik on Zionism

6. Soloveitchik on Interfaith Dialogue

7. Soloveitchik’s Philosophical Legacy

8. Bibliography

Biography

Heshey Zelcer is a founder of akirah: The Flatbush Journal of Jewish Law and Thought and a member of its editorial board. He has published books and articles on Jewish law, philosophy, history, and liturgy.

Mark Zelcer is Assistant Professor of Philosophy at Queensborough Community College, City University of New York. He has published in various areas of philosophy including the philosophy of mathematics and ancient philosophy. He co-authored Politics and Philosophy in Plato’s Menexenus (Routledge, 2015).

'Overall, I highly recommend this book both for those already familiar with Rav Soloveitchik’s thought (from either direction), and for those wishing to become familiar with it. The authors have provided us with a valuable tool to take up (or download) the actual writings of this titan of halacha and hashkafa, and to study them carefully, sensitively and creatively as he himself would have demanded.'

Jeffrey R. Woolf, The Jewish Press

'The book is a good education in the history of philosophy all in the service of expounding the thought of one of Judaism’s most interesting and beloved thinkers.'

The Jewish Star