2. Does Judaism Have Universal Significance?

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. CONTENTS iii
3. Preface v
4. I. Challenges and Responses
5. 1. Some Underlying Issues of Modern Jewish Philosophy 1
6. 2. Does Judaism Have Universal Significance? 34
7. II. Philosophers of Encounter
8. 3. Death and the Fear of Death in Franz Rosenzweig’s The Star of Redemption 49
9. 4. The Halevi Book 67
10. 5. Into Life: Rosenzweig’s Essays on God, Man and the World 86
11. 6. The Meaning of Hasidism: Martin Buber and Gershom Scholem 111
12. 7. Autobiography and the Becoming of the Self: Martin Buber and Joseph Campbell 135
13. 8. Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas: A Midrash or Thought-Experiment 158
14. 9. Welcoming the Other: The Philosophical Foundation for Pluralism in the Works of Charles Davis and Emmanuel Levinas 185
15. III. Jewish Philosophers in the Late Twentieth Century
16. 10. Joseph B. Soloveitchik and Soren Kierkegaard: Reflections on “The Lonely Man of Faith” 221
17. 11. Eliezer Schweid: The First Israeli Philosopher 243
18. 12. Can We Still Stay With Him?: Two Jewish Theologians Confront the Holocaust (Emil Fackenheim and Arthur Cohen) 273
19. 13. Theology and Community: The Work of Emil Fackenheim 299
20. 14. Irving Greenberg: A Jewish Dialectic of Hope 315
21. 15. Feminist Jewish Philosophy: A Response 343
22. Bibliography 377
23. Index 393