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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10082
Title: When technology meets theology
Authors: Schapiro, Moshe
Abstract: Jewish legal sources address the question of intellectual property rights extensively, including
important issues such as reward for effort, return on investment and scholars’ need to support
themselves. The Torah recognizes that it would be unfair and irresponsible to deny scholars the
material benefit of their hard work.
•However, Jewish law also seeks to mold attitudes and encourage positive behaviors.
Acknowledging that God grants our intellectual achievements should lead to a spirit of
generosity and a willingness, within reason, to share our knowledge and insight with others.
Digital platforms make this generosity more attainable and more impactful. (from Conclusion)
Description: Blog article / Open access2019-10-10T00:00:00ZHabermas at 90: A personal and professional tribute.
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10081
Title: Habermas at 90: A personal and professional tribute.
Authors: Rosenfeld, Michel
Abstract: As I reflect on Habermas’s contributions to the fields in which I have labored, I am
certain that his theories will endure well beyond our own times. In this respect, the
analogy between Habermas and Kant strikes me as particularly apt. Kant’s categorical
imperative is exemplary though impossible. In a world in which none of us are
self-sufficient, we cannot but rely on others as means. And precisely because of that,
we should be mindful of the moral ideal according to which every one of us is an end
in him/herself. Similarly, in the case of Habermas, pure procedural justification, consensus,
and universalization will always remain beyond our horizon, but we should
incessantly strive toward them in order to coexist fairly and peacefully in our increasingly
pluralistic settings. Finally, constitutional patriotism may never stand alone, but
its essence should always remain within our compass. (from Conclusion)
Description: Scholarly article / Open access2019-10-01T00:00:00ZBlood and spirit: Paternity, fraternity and religious self-fashioning in Luis de Carvajal’s spiritual autobiography
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10080
Title: Blood and spirit: Paternity, fraternity and religious self-fashioning in Luis de Carvajal’s spiritual autobiography
Authors: Perelis, Ronnie
Abstract: The subterranean networks of New World crypto-Judaism rarely thrived in
isolation. Rather, as Jonathan I. Israel, Yosef Kaplan, and others have shown,
these secret Jewish communities were connected to a global network of fellow
Conversos and openly professing Jews living throughout Europe and the
Americas.2 These disparate groups were connected through a complex web of
familial, economic, and family ties. Commercial links were solidified by
marriage; therefore, business and family were inseparable. Real-world family
connections made of “blood and treasure” were intertwined with a longing for
family in metaphorical and spiritual terms. Beyond the bonds of flesh and blood,
individual crypto-Jews found paternity and brotherhood with like-minded religious
searchers for a family of spirit inseparably connected with their family
of flesh and blood. This paper explores the dialectical relationship between the
socio-economic iteration of family and its more spiritual, metaphorical expression
within the context of New World crypto-Judaism. (from Introduction)
Description: Scholarly article / Open access2012-01-01T00:00:00ZLaw against justice and solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the margins of the one and the many
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.12202/10079
Title: Law against justice and solidarity: Rereading Derrida and Agamben at the margins of the one and the many
Authors: Rosenfeld, Michel
Editors: Rosenfeld, Michel; Goodrich, Peter
Abstract: Law and justice are in crucial ways against nature as well as against solidarity. As David Hume famously proclaimed, justice is an “artificial virtue” in contrast to the social bonds of family and community which are affectively grounded in solidarity and manifestations of mutual sympathy. Law is also artificial much in the same way as justice. Indeed, to the extent that law is conceived as a self-standing normative order propelled by its own inner logic, it tends to remain too abstract to command heartfelt internalization or commitment. Moreover, law often stands against justice as some laws are unjust and law can rarely if ever deliver full justice. The above insights pose difficult questions for proponents of critical jurisprudence and the respective contributions to legal theory by Derrida and Agamben enrich the debate and open fruitful perspectives in relation to the relation between law, justice and solidarity in the context of the nexus between the singular, the universal and the plural. For Derrida, law must pursue justice, but always falls short as there is tragically no way to ever reconcile the universal and the singular. For Agamben, in contrast, while reconciling law, justice and solidarity may be as elusive as it is for Derrida, it becomes masked by a ceremonial spectacle of religiously inspired mysterious harmony leading to consensus acclamation by those subjected to law combined with an unbridgeable gap between law and administration.
This chapter places in context and compares Derrida’s deconstruction of law with Agamben’s reconstruction and inquires whether these two theorists complement one another and whether there are any solutions to the problems they confront that may open a way beyond despair or artifice.
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Description: Scholarly article / Open access2017-09-06T00:00:00Z