Staying Human

"""Staying Human offers an original, well-reasoned, constructive Jewish theology that bridges technoscience and religion, transcendence and immanence, universality and particularity, and reason and the imagination. . . . Bor thoughtfully argues that the Halakhic way of life enables its practitioners to resist the totalizing tendencies of contemporary technology and experience the particularistic, time-bound, embodied human existence that remains open to transcendence. All readers . . . will find Staying Human a provocative and refreshing work."" --Hava Tirosh-Samuelson, Director, Center for Jewish Studies, and Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism and Professor of History, Arizona State University ""Harris Bor has produced a gripping and beautifully written investigation into the meaning of religious thought and practice in an age of Artificial Intelligence. His words bring philosophy and religion to life."" --Samuel Lebens, rabbi and Associate Professor, Philosophy Department, University of Haifa ""Coming out of Jewish tradition and looking forward with hope to a future ostensibly determined by the ever more rapid and inexorable advance of science and technology, Harris Bor calls two improbable witnesses, Spinoza and Heidegger. His book will appeal to thoughtful Jewish readers, and to others who share his concern for the future of humanity."" --Nicholas De Lange, Fellow of the British Academy and Emeritus Professor of Hebrew and Jewish Studies, Cambridge University ""Harris Bor offers a stimulating and energized engagement with technology from a Jewish perspective, which both displays creative insight into life's big questions and seeks to build a religious practice based upon them. Drawing on philosophies from the East and West, he shows how Jewish spirituality simultaneously seeks the God of everything and the God that loves difference, and how these concepts can be used to navigate our technological world and are fundamental to an understanding of it. The work is bound to be of interest to the academic and religious seeker alike."" --Nathan Lopes Cardozo, rabbi, international lecturer, author, and Founder and Dean of the David Cardozo Academy, Jerusalem"