Contents

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents ix
3. Acknowledgments xi
4. Introduction xv
5. 1 Situating the Work: A Brief History of Being Jewish I Reading Heidegger 1
6. 2 Between Rhetoric and Hermeneutics: Thinking the Sacredness of Sacred Texts 27
7. 3 Hermes' Rhetorical Problem: The Dilemma of the Sacred in Hermeneutics 43
8. 4 Truth-Aspiring Discourse at the End of Philosophy: The Limits of Narrative 72
9. 5 A Rhetorical Phenomenology of Heidegger's Speech: The Philosopher as Rabbinic Sage 93
10. 6 Heidegger Reading Aristotle: The Rhetoric as Ontology 109
11. 7 Heidegger's Teaching: Philosophy as Torah 125
12. Bibliography 145
13. Index 153