ANALYTIC HASIDISM: REFLECTIONS ON SAM LEBENS’ PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM

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  • Paul FRANKS Yale University

DOI:

https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2022.3976

Abstract

 Sam Lebens has written a richly inventive and thought-provoking book that contributes greatly to philosophy of religion and to contemporary Jewish philosophy. While there is much that merits response, I will focus here on one central theme of the book: the doctrine, dubbed (Extreme) Hasidic Idealism by Lebens, that we exist only in God’s imagination — accordingly that we are nothing but divine ideas. I will also argue that the book exceeds its self-presentation as a work in the “analytic style” and illustrates the need to overcome the analytic/Continental divide.

Published

2022-12-16

How to Cite

Paul FRANKS. 2022. “ANALYTIC HASIDISM: REFLECTIONS ON SAM LEBENS’ PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM”. European Journal for Philosophy of Religion 14 (4):321-42. https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2022.3976.

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