Abstract

This chapter examines Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's dialogic thought and his call for the recognition of contradiction as a critical imperative in modern philosophy. It discusses Goldschmidt's argument that philosophy needs to recognize the philosophic importance of the sources of Jewish tradition in order for philosophy to be self-consistent and relevant. This chapter also argues that Goldschmidt's call for unrestricted autonomy for cultural self-determination is not conceived as an exclusive demand but rather as one that is to be granted universally and that Jewish self-determination and philosophy "out of the sources of Judaism" is thus not an end in itself but rather a paradigmatic test case for how the project of philosophy as well as society in general can be reimagined as modern and genuinely multicultural.

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