Lexington Books
Pages: 358
Trim: 6½ x 9
978-0-7391-1191-8 • Paperback • April 2006 • $54.99 • (£42.00)
Galia Patt-Shamir is Senior Lecturer in the Department of East Asian Studies at Tel-Aviv University.
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0 Introduction:Way and Walk
Chapter 1 Where Religions Meet: Dao and Halakh - A Dialogue of Ways
Part 1 How to Deal With It? Religious Philosophical and Literary Origins
Chapter 2 What Literature Mirrors: Biblical Themes as Universal Themes
Part 2 Application: Living Riddle as Test; Living Riddle as Mystery
Chapter 3 How Philosophy Suggests: From Understanding Texts to Understanding Life through Living Riddles
Chapter 4 From Eden to Babel through the Land of Moriah:Life as Perpetual Text
Chapter 5 From Earth to Man through Heaven: Life as Mystery
Chapter 6 Confucian Way as Living a Riddle
The challenging ideas put forth in this rich volume necessarily lead to new considerations regarding one's own and others' traditions. Useful Chinese and Hebrew gloassaries as well as an extensive bibliography supplement the book.
— Irene Eber; The Journal Of Religion
There are many important sections that can captivate and inform the reader.
— Dao: A Journal of Comparative Philosophy, Springer Science and Business Media
A unique book by a unique author....It is stimulating.
— Journal of Chinese Religions
To Broaden the Way is at once an introduction to Confucianism, a personal statement by a Jewish scholar who, while not 'observant' in any formal sense, still feels reverence for the traditions of halakhic Judaism, and a fascinating comparison of the two. Readers whose ideas of morality have been wholly derived from the Western tradition that stretches from Plato to John Rawls will find their minds stretched by reading this short book. They may even be helped in defining their own 'way.'
— Hilary Putnam, professor emeritus, Harvard University