Introduction

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter I
2. Foreword to the Series V
3. Foreword of the editors in light of the events of October 7, 2023 IX
4. Table of Contents XI
5. Introduction 1
6. Part One: Interpretation
7. Mashber: Crisis, Birth, Hebrew Version 15
8. The Crisis of Democracy and the Turn to Tradition: Habermas and Benjamin 33
9. Crisis, Decision, and Deferral: German-Jewish Thinkers vs. Carl Schmitt 53
10. Derrida and Levinas on Political Hospitality 71
11. On the Crisis of Jewish Law: Auerbach, Luther, and Realism 87
12. Part Two: Heresy and Rupture
13. The Theologico-Political Predicament, Zionism, and the Crisis of Heresy: Leo Strauss and Yoel Teitelbaum of Satmar 107
14. Prophetic Politics: Back to Theology 127
15. Between Betrayal and Innovation: Scholem on the Marrano Crisis of Tradition 153
16. Talking with Heretics: Tracing a Theme in Moses Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem and Classical Rabbinic Literature 185
17. Part Three: History
18. Leo Strauss in Paris 1933: A Missed Opportunity for a Dialogical Understanding of the Crisis of Liberalism 213
19. Death and the Infinitization of Finitude: Negation and the Ethical Crisis of Modernity in Edith Wyschogrod’s Postmodern Hermeneutic 241
20. The “Hermeneutic Triangle” of Modern Judaism: “God,” “History,” and “Meaning” 267
21. Is Jewish Exile a Crisis? Zionism, Modern Jewish Thought, and the Historical Dynamics of the Term 293
22. List of Contributors 315
23. Index of names 317
24. Index of topics 321