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    Enemies, For My Sake.Martin Kavka - 2020 - Journal of Religious Ethics 48 (2):308-315.
    This response to Jason A. Springs’s Healthy Conflict in Contemporary Society praises Springs for his recommendations for improving the discourse found in ethical conflicts in public life. Springs’s main prescription is for culture to stop repressing conflict. But if Springs ought to be praised for desiring to give conflict its due in public life, Healthy Conflict in Contemporary Life ought also to be criticized for not always being clear on whether there are criteria that authorize excluding some people (e.g. white (...)
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    What Does a Prophet Know?Martin Kavka - 2018 - Journal of Religious Ethics 46 (1):181-189.
    This essay on Cathleen Kaveny's Prophecy Without Contempt challenges her argument from two opposing sides. First, it critiques all jeremiads. It asks how a person uttering prophetic indictments, whether in the form of a classical jeremiad or the more moderate form that Kaveny argues for, can possibly know of what she speaks, given the otherness of God. Second, it calls for more jeremiads. It asks whether a person, whether religious or not, might indeed know enough to offer withering jeremiads, in (...)
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    Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy.Martin Kavka - 2004 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish philosophical and theological tradition. For Emmanuel Levinas, as well as for Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Cohen and Moses Maimonides, the Greek concept of nonbeing clarifies the meaning of Jewish life. These thinkers of 'Jerusalem' use 'Athens' for Jewish ends, justifying Jewish anticipation of a future messianic era as well as portraying the (...)
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  4. Verification (Bewahrung) in Martin Buber.Martin Kavka - 2012 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 20 (1):71-98.
    Abstract The work of Martin Buber oscillates between talk in which transcendence is experienced and talk in which transcendence is merely postulated. In order to show and mend this incoherence in Buber's thought, this essay attends to the rhetoric of verification ( Bewährung ), primarily but not solely in I and Thou (1923), both in order to show how it is a symptom of this incoherence, and also to show a broad pragmatic strain in Buber's thought. Given this pragmatic strain, (...)
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    The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: The Modern Era.Martin Kavka, Zachary Braiterman & David Novak (eds.) - 2009 - New York: Cambridge University Press.
    The second volume of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy provides a comprehensive overview of Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field, its essays examine how Jewish thinking was modified in its encounter with modern Europe and America and challenge longstanding assumptions about the nature and purpose of modern Jewish philosophy. The volume also treats modern Jewish philosophy's continuities with premodern texts and thinkers, the relationship between philosophy (...)
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    Is There a Warrant for Levinas's Talmudic Readings?Martin Kavka - 2006 - Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 14 (1-2):153-173.
    Levinas's Talmudic readings have played an important role in defending the claim that the discipline of modern Jewish philosophy cannot be reduced to a list of assimilationist thinkers. This article argues that this claim is defendable, but only if the premise of the claim ceases to be the content of Levinas's Talmudic readings: "The Temptation of Temptation" wrongly takes its sugya as representative of Judaism as a whole, the differing mathematical calculations between Levinas and the sugya he treats in "The (...)
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    Fearful and Faint‐Hearted: On Affect and the Just‐War Tradition.Martin Kavka - 2023 - Journal of Religious Ethics 51 (2):262-279.
    In the spirit of this group of articles commemorating the fiftieth anniversary of the Journal of Religious Ethics, dealing with tradition-based reasoning, this article takes up a passage from Deuteronomy 20 that allows the “fearful and faint-hearted” person not to participate in battle, as well as the rabbinic and medieval appropriations of this passage in the Jewish tradition. It argues that this verse gives primacy to affect in a way that complicates standard interpretations of the Jewish tradition on just war (...)
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    For It Is God’s Way to Sweeten Bitter with Bitter.Martin Kavka - 2019 - Levinas Studies 13:43-67.
    In accounts of Emmanuel Levinas’s relationship to the Jewish theological tradition, scholars often analyze Levinas’s essays about Rabbi Hayyim of Volozhin, and specifically his 1824 book Soul of Life (Nefesh ha-Ḥayyim). This article treats two essays that Levinas wrote in the mid-1980s on that book, and shows that Levinas’s praise for that book involves coming close to endorsing its theology of suffering, a theology that strikes this article’s author as obscene. In Nefesh ha-Ḥayyim, those who suffer deserve their suffering, their (...)
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    Editors’ Note.Aline Kalbian & Martin Kavka - 2019 - Journal of Religious Ethics 47 (4):651-651.
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    Jewish Liturgical Reasoning – By Steven Kepnes.Martin Kavka - 2009 - Modern Theology 25 (1):154-157.
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    Phenomenology & Mysticism: The Verticality Of Religious Experience – By Anthony J. Steinbock.Martin Kavka - 2009 - Modern Theology 25 (4):689-692.
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    Religious Experience in Levinas and R. Hayyim of Volozhin.Martin Kavka - 2006 - Philosophy Today 50 (1):69-79.
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    Should Levinasians also be Hegelians? On Wyschogrod’s Levinasianism.Martin Kavka - 2011 - Philosophy Today 55 (4):372-385.
  14. The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy: Volume 2: The Modern Era.Martin Kavka, Zachary Braiterman & David Novak (eds.) - 2012 - Cambridge University Press.
    The second volume of The Cambridge History of Jewish Philosophy provides a comprehensive overview of Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth century to the present day. Written by a distinguished group of experts in the field, its essays examine how Jewish thinking was modified in its encounter with modern Europe and America and challenge longstanding assumptions about the nature and purpose of modern Jewish philosophy. The volume also treats modern Jewish philosophy's continuities with premodern texts and thinkers, the relationship between philosophy (...)
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    Tyler Roberts: Encountering religion: responsibility and criticism after secularism: Columbia University Press, New York, NY, 2013, xvi and 300 pp., $55.00.Martin Kavka - 2014 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 76 (1):95-98.
    In the 1980s and 1990s, the theoretical energy in the study of religion came from postmodern theory and its appropriation by scholars who worked in, or at the margins of, the subfield called “philosophy of religion.” Today, philosophy of religion—at least in departments of religion and religious studies—threatens to kill itself with its own jargon; the theoretical energy in the study of religion comes from young scholars working in American religious history (such as John Modern, author of Secularism in Antebellum (...)
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    Saintly influence: Edith Wyschogrod and the possibilities of philosophy of religion.Edith Wyschogrod, Eric Boynton & Martin Kavka (eds.) - 2009 - New York: Fordham University Press.
    In all of these discourses, she has sought to cultivate an awareness of how the self is situated and influenced, as well as the ways in which a self can influence others.In this volume, twelve scholars examine and display the influence of ...
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    Judaism and Theology in Martha Nussbaum's Ethics. [REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2003 - Journal of Religious Ethics 31 (2):343 - 359.
    The writings of Martha Nussbaum broadly defend an account of transcendence as internal, always rooted in the human context. Her account implies that any and all projects of normative theological ethics are superfluous, since they transcend the natural bounds of human experience and reason. This essay points toward a space for theology, specifically Jewish theology, in Nussbaum's work, through an analysis of her recent philosophical and autobiographical writings on Judaism. Nussbaum's account in Upheavals of Thought associates Judaism with carnality and (...)
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    Pierre Bouretz, Witnesses for the future: philosophy and messianism. Translated by Michael B. Smith: The John Hopkins University Press, Baltimore, MD, 2010, xii and 965 pp, $100.00. [REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2012 - International Journal for Philosophy of Religion 71 (1):93-96.
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    Review of Dana Hollander, Exemplarity and Chosenness: Rosenzweig and Derrida on the Nation of Philosophy[REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2008 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2008 (10).
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    Review of Eric Sean Nelson, Antje Kapust, Kent still (eds.), Addressing Levinas[REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2005 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2005 (11).
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    Review of Richard A. Cohen, Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion[REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2011 - Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews 2011 (1).
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    WHAT IS IMMANENT IN JUDAISM? Transcending A Secular Age. [REVIEW]Martin Kavka - 2012 - Journal of Religious Ethics 40 (1):123-137.
    This essay takes on the implicit claim in Taylor's A Secular Age, forecast in some of his earlier writings, that the desire for a meaningful life can never be satisfied in this life. As a result, A Secular Age is suffused with a tragic view of existence; its love of narratives of religious longing makes no sense otherwise. Yet there are other models of religion that lend meaning to existence, and in the majority of this essay, I take up one (...)
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