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Printing Date: 1966-06
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Professor Rubenstein was my most fascinating and challenging professor at FSU during the 1970s. His range of intellectual inquiry makes him a "Renaissance" man. He has written numerous provocative and important books.
And I am re-reading the books thirty plus years later.
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Richard Rubenstein's AFTER AUSCHWITZ is out of print though not forgotten. As a college senior in an elective religious studies course thirty years ago at a southeastern state university in the "Bible Belt," this book changed my perceptions of reality. I finally graduated with a bachelour of science degree, majoring in political science and minoring in philosophy. Of the various & sundry writings I was exposed to in the formal curriculum of the liberal arts college, Rubsenstein's probably has had the most impact. I have taken courses in political theory and in general philosophy, including the metaphysics of Plato, Kant, and Lord Barkeley (sp?). I read more than a couple of newspapers & magazines of a multitude of perspectives & slants & political-economic-theological nuances: COMMENTARY vs. THE NEW REPUBLIC vs. THE NATION vs THE WEEKLY STANDARD vs. SLATE vs. SALOON vs THE NATIONAL ENQUIRER vs Anything & Everyt Darn Thing That I Can Stomach. It may be alleged that I have perused the NY TIMES daily & Sunday book reviews and that I actually enjoy some C-SPAN book discussions. Well, let me tell ya: Richard Rubenstein's AFTER AUSCHWITZ remains for me that one book which I tout to y'all who have meandered into my obscure place here in the Amazon stuff jungle. He covers some of the waterfront (Amazonesque riverfront) of religion-related ideas particularly regarding Judaism and anti-Judaism. He is complex, gutsy & brilliant. Imho: His theology (non-theology) is more important to young people than enjoying the relative mind candies of Philip Roth & J.D. Salinger. If you are Jewish or want to know what a youngish radical rabbi in the 1960's candidly confesses, please try to retrieve a copy from a library or used book store. Skim through any too complicated boring stuff as I did, while also understanding you are holding in your hand something so true & insightful that you cannot slough him off. He is considdred, I suppose, to be a religion existentialist, a religious ceremony upholding atheist, "G-d is supreme nothingness." He is part anthropologist, I suppose, in comparing the structural-functionalism (or is that functional-structuralism) of the Roman Catholic's emotional liturgy with our Orthodox-Conservative shul serrvice. He claims the non-holy-roller establishmentarian Protestant's service is too dry & thus not emotional outletting enough in comparison. His take on "chosen people" is that the gentiles have consequently duly perceived us as JESUS and/or JUDAS, rather than as human. We Jews are their messianic angels and/or their sub-human devils. I can't do justice for AFTER AUSCHWITZ. I am trivializing a philosopher-theologian's masterful work. Am I failing to motivate you to obtain the book? The Protestant professor who assigned me to read the book was arrested for anti-Vietnam war demonstrating at a Billy Graham Rally in which President Nixon was speaking. I was (near) there (grass outer-fringe of the football stadium) but not an existentialistic demonstrator. (I am still too conflicted.) Such was the mid-late 1960's approximately 20-25 years after Auschwitz.
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