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    [fullTitle] => ANALYTIC HASIDISM: REFLECTIONS ON SAM LEBENS’ PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM
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 Sam Lebens has written a richly inventive and thought-provoking book that contributes greatly to philosophy of religion and to contemporary Jewish philosophy. While there is much that merits response, I will focus here on one central theme of the book: the doctrine, dubbed (Extreme) Hasidic Idealism by Lebens, that we exist only in God’s imagination — accordingly that we are nothing but divine ideas. I will also argue that the book exceeds its self-presentation as a work in the “analytic style” and illustrates the need to overcome the analytic/Continental divide.

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    [doi] => 10.24204/ejpr.2022.3976
    [datePublished] => 2022-12-16
    [pdf] => https://www.philosophy-of-religion.eu/menuscript/index.php/ejpr/article/view/3976/version/1361/3005
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ANALYTIC HASIDISM: REFLECTIONS ON SAM LEBENS’ PRINCIPLES OF JUDAISM

Paul FRANKS
Yale University

DOI: https://doi.org/10.24204/ejpr.2022.3976

Abstract

 Sam Lebens has written a richly inventive and thought-provoking book that contributes greatly to philosophy of religion and to contemporary Jewish philosophy. While there is much that merits response, I will focus here on one central theme of the book: the doctrine, dubbed (Extreme) Hasidic Idealism by Lebens, that we exist only in God’s imagination — accordingly that we are nothing but divine ideas. I will also argue that the book exceeds its self-presentation as a work in the “analytic style” and illustrates the need to overcome the analytic/Continental divide.

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