Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents v
3. Acknowledgments vii
4. 1. Introduction: Disciplining Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought 1
5. 2. Hellenes, Nazarenes, and Other Jews: Heine the Fool 21
6. 3. Jewish Philosophy? The Discourse of a Project 39
7. 4. Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig 58
8. 5. A House of One’s Own? University, Particularity, and the Jewish House of Learning 83
9. 6. Jewish Thought in the Wake of Auschwitz: Margarete Susman’s The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People 97
10. 7. Contradiction Set Free: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt’s Philosophy out of the Sources of Judaism 114
11. 8. Spinoza’s Smart Worm and the Interplay of Ethics, Politics, and Interpretation 133
12. 9. Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment 150
13. 10. State, Sovereignty, and the Outside Within: Mendelssohn’s View from the “Jewish Colony” 178
14. 11. Mendelssohn and the State 189
15. 12. “An Experiment of How Coincidence May Produce Unanimity of Thoughts”: Enlightenment Trajectories in Kant and Mendelssohn 210
16. Coda 230
17. Notes 233
18. Index 267