What's Wrong With Secularism?: Rethinking the Enlightenment
Professor Samuelson argues that secularism, humanism and the Enlightenment can be more properly understood as a non-Jewish distortion of Jewish Messianism. "A Sir Isaiah Berlin Lecture"
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| Topics: | Moshiach and the Future Redemption, Humanism; Secularism |
Professor Norbert M. Samuelson, an internationally renowned scholar of Jewish philosophy, is the Harold and Jean Grossman Professor of Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in the School of Historical Philosophical and Religious Studies and author of thirteen books and over 200 articles. Prof. Samuelson authored three major constructive philosophic-theological works: The First Seven Days: A Philosophical Commentary on the Creation of Genesis (1992), Judaism and the Doctrine of Creation (1994), and Revelation and the God of Israel (2002), as well as Gersonides on God's knowledge (1977), and A Users' Guide to Franz Rosenzweig's Star of Redemption (1999). For his contributions to scholarship on modern Jewish Philosophy, he was elected Honorary President of the International Franz Rosenzweig Society in 2009.
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