Autonomy and Judaism: The Individual and Community in Jewish Philosophical Thought

Contributors

Contributors Eugene B. Borowitz is the Sigmund L. Falk Distinguished Professor of Education and Jewish Religious Thought at Hebrew Union College-Jewish Institute of Religion (New York). He is the author of twelve books, most recently Exploring Jewish Ethics (1990) and Renewing the Covenant: A Theology for the Postmodern Jew (1991). He has been the editor of Sh'ma, a Journal of Jewish Responsibility since founding it in 1970. Elliot N. Dorffis Provost and Professor of Philosophy at the University of Judaism (Los Angeles). He is the author of numerous articles on Jewish law, ethics, and theology and of four books, among which are Jewish Law and Modern Ideology (1971) and (with Arthur Rosett) A Living Tree: The Roots and Growth ofJewish Law (1988). Daniel H. Frank is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky. He has published in the areas of classical philosophy and of medieval Islamic and Jewish philosophy. He is the author of The Arguments "From the Sciences" in Aristotle's Peri !deon (1984) and is editor (with Oliver Leaman) of The Routledge History ofJewish Philosophy (in preparation). Robert Gibbs is Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University. His book, Correlations: Rosenzweig and Levinas, is forthcoming. His current research focuses on social ethics. Lenn E. Goodman is Professor of Philosophy at the University of Hawaii. A specialist in medieval Islamic and Jewish Philosophy, he has published studies of most of the major Muslim philosophers as well as of such Jewish thinkers as Maimonides and Saadiah. His most recent books are a translation with philosophic commentary of Saadiah Gaon's Book of Theodicy (1988) and a philosophic study, On Justice (1991). Ze'ev Levy is Professor of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa. He is the author of numerous articles and of eight books, among which are Between Yafeth and Shem: On the Relationship between Jewish 220 Autonomy and Judaism and General Philosophy (1982) and Baruch or Benedict: On Some Jewish Aspects ojSpinoza's Philosophy (1989). Kenneth Seeskin is Professor and Chair of the Department of Philosophy at Northwestern University and Director of its Jewish Studies Program. He is the author of many articles in classical philosophy and in Jewish philosophy and of three books, Dialogue and Discovery: A Study in Socratic Method (1987), Jewish Philosophy in a Secular Age (1990), and Maimonides: A Guidejor Today's Perplexed (1991). Martin D. Yaffe is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of North Texas. He has published in the areas of classical political philosophy and of Jewish thought. He is co-author of a translation of Aquinas' Literal Exposition on Job (1989), and is currently cotranslating Hermann Cohen's The Dramatic Idea in Mozart's Opera Texts and editing a volume of critical essays on the Jewish historian, Ellis Rivkin. ...