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The Journal of Jewish thought & philosophy

ISSN 1053-699X

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“Transforming the Human Sphere”: Edmund Husserl’s Phenomenology of Time and Abraham Joshua Heschel’s Conception of Sabbath

The Journal of Jewish thought & philosophy March 24, 2026 Miriam Feldmann-Kaye

This article analyzes the influence of phenomenological schools of thought on the Jewish philosophy of Abraham Joshua Heschel, focusing on the twentieth-century phenomenology of Edmund Husserl and its manifestations in Heschel’s writings on the idea of time. Discussions of phenomenological influences upon Heschel have tended to focus on the idea of “religious experience” in his writings on...