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How to Measure a World?
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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