How to Measure a World?
A Philosophy of Judaism
Published on 7. August 2025
Book
Hardback
246 pages
979-8-88719-951-1 (ISBN)
Description
ENG:
What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more.
Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter Benjamin to Stanley Cavell.
How to Measure a World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an assessment of the world and our place in it. A particular understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the relationship between humans and their world. In the end, Levinas's suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically, revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.
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What does it mean to wonder in awe or terror about the world? How do you philosophically understand Judaism? In How to Measure a World?: A Philosophy of Judaism, Martin Shuster provides answers to these questions and more.
Emmanuel Levinas suggested that Judaism is best understood as an anachronism. Shuster attempts to make sense of this claim by alternatively considering questions of the inscrutability of ultimate reality, of the pain and commonness of human suffering, and of the ways in which Judaism is entangled with the world. Drawing on phenomenology and Jewish thought, Shuster offers novel readings of some of the classic figures of Jewish philosophy while inserting other voices into the tradition, from Moses Maimonides to Theodor W. Adorno to Walter Benjamin to Stanley Cavell.
How to Measure a World? examines elements of the Jewish philosophical record to get at the full intellectual scope and range of Levinas's proposal. Shuster's view of anachronism thereby provokes an assessment of the world and our place in it. A particular understanding of Jewish philosophy emerges, not only through the traditions it encompasses, but also through an understanding of the relationship between humans and their world. In the end, Levinas's suggestion is examined theoretically as much as practically, revealing what's at stake for Judaism as much as for the world.
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Other
Place of publication
United States
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Academic Studies Press
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Professional and scholarly
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Height: 235 mm
Width: 157 mm
Thickness: 18 mm
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515 gr
ISBN-13
979-8-88719-951-1 (9798887199511)
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ENG:
Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests are in ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, and philosophy of religion. He works across a range of traditions and time periods, oftentimes engaging fields like genocide studies, film theory, television studies, and various kinds of critical theory. Shuster has previously been the Diane and Howard Wohl Scholar in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC (2007-2008) and a Visiting Professor at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2019). For years, he has also been involved with teaching in prisons.
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Martin Shuster is Professor of Philosophy and the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Jewish Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. His research interests are in ethics, political philosophy, aesthetics, critical theory, and philosophy of religion. He works across a range of traditions and time periods, oftentimes engaging fields like genocide studies, film theory, television studies, and various kinds of critical theory. Shuster has previously been the Diane and Howard Wohl Scholar in Residence at the United States Holocaust Memorial Museum in Washington, DC (2007-2008) and a Visiting Professor at the Universite Paris 1 Pantheon-Sorbonne (2019). For years, he has also been involved with teaching in prisons.
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