Sixteen original essays by internationally prominent scholars on the central figures of modern Jewish philosophy from Spinoza to Levinas.
Contributors ixAcknowledgments xiiiChronology xviiIntroduction: Modern Jewish Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and Modern Judaism Michael L. Morgan Peter Eli Gordon 1Baruch Spinoza and the Naturalization of Judaism Steven Nadler 14The Liberalism of Moses Mendelssohn Allan Arkush 35Jewish Philosophy after Kant: The Legacy of Salomon Maimon Paul W. Franks 53Hermann Cohen: Judaism and Critical Idealism Andrea Poma 80Self, Other, Text, God: The Dialogical Thought of Martin Buber Tamra Wright 102Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence Peter Eli Gordon 122Leo Strauss and Modern Jewish Thought Steven B. Smith 147Messianism and Modern Jewish Philosophy Pierre Bouretz 170Ethics, Authority, and Autonomy Kenneth Seeskin 192Joseph Soloveitchik and Halakhic Man Lawrence J. Kaplan 209Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the Primacy of the Ethical Richard A. Cohen 234Emil Fackenheim, the Holocaust, and Philosophy Michael L. Morgan 256Evil,Suffering, and the Holocaust Berel Lang 277Revelation, Language, and Commentary: From Buber to Derrida Leora Batnitzky 300Feminism and Modern Jewish Philosophy Tamar Rudavsky 324Bibliography 349Index 365