Jewish Universalisms: Mendelssohn, Cohen, and Humanity’s Highest Good
Any version of universalism relevant to a more attentive, pluralistic, and postcolonial outlook would balance the urgent current need for a universalistic…
Dynamic Repetition: History and Messianism in Modern Jewish Thought
Dynamic Repetition proposes a new understanding of modern Jewish theories of messianism across the disciplines of history, theology, and…
The Simple Beauty of the Unexpected: A Natural Philosopher’s Quest for Trout and the Meaning of Everything
Marcelo Gleiser has had a passion for science and fishing since he was a boy growing up on the beaches of Rio de Janeiro. Now a world-famous theoretical…
Color Codes: Modern Theories of Color in Philosophy, Painting and Architecture, Literature, Music, and Psychology
“The first thing to realize about the study of color in our time is its uncanny ability to evade all attempts to systematically codify it,” writes Charles…
Jerusalem: Or on Religious Power and Judaism
A classic text of enduring significance, Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem (1783) stands as a powerful plea for the separation of church and state and also…