Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Editors’ Introduction 7
4. Part I
5. Introduction 10
6. Coming After: American Jewish Thought in Light of German Judaism 20
7. Doing Jewish Philosophy in America 33
8. Thinking Through Scripture and Liturgy after the Shoah 57
9. Jewish Thought and Contemporary Philosophy 71
10. Jewish Philosophy in North America 79
11. On the Renaissance of Jewish Philosophy in America 104
12. Covenant and Social Contract: Classical Judaism and Classical Liberalism 122
13. Philosophy, Jewish Thought, and the American Setting in My Work 129
14. Jewish Philosophy and American Democracy 146
15. Response 150
16. Part II
17. Maimonides on the Eternity of the World 157
18. Maimonides on Creation 185
19. Comments on Seeskin and Kreisel’s Essays on Maimonides on Creation 200
20. Comments on Professor Kreisel’s Paper 215
21. The Identity of the Sabians: Some Insights 233
22. Moses Ibn Tibbon’s Concept of Vital Heat: A Reassessment of Peripatetic Epistemology in Terms of Natural Science 255
23. The Phenomenology of Faith R. Soloveitchik’s Analysis in And From There You Shall Seek 279
24. Interactions between Karaite and Rabbanite Thought in Spain and Byzantium 315
25. ‘Anti Maimonidean Maimonideanism’? Some Remarks on a New Publication 319