Sharing the Burden

Sharing the BurdenExamines a fascinating and important figure in the history of modern Jewish ethics. Sharing the Burden analyzes the rich moral traditions of the nineteenth century Musar movement, an Eastern European Jewish movement focused on the development of moral character. Geoffrey D. Claussen focuses on that movement's leading moral theorist, Rabbi Simah Zissel Ziv (18241898), the founder of the first Musar movement yeshiva and the first traditionalist

It is this conception of the body as mere handmaiden to the privileged that the contributors to this book challenge

This volume presents the results of the first three years (1983-1985) of a five-year excavation at Pacatnamu

Situating Nancy's thought within a larger philosophical tradition leading from German Romanticism to contemporary social and political theory

show the breadth and depth of Croce's work as literary critic and presuppose his mature theory of art

many in colour

photo archives

Instead of offering a blissful escape from education

The Light Princess is one of George MacDonald’s most notable works

and lived through social changes such as the Civil War

certain fundamental presuppositions necessarily remain unproven

even to his own detriment

determination