Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Introduction 1
4. 1 Emil Fackenheim on Moses Maimonides and the “One Great Difference between the Medievals and the Moderns” 19
5. 2 Emil Fackenheim’s Jewish Correction of Kant’s Quasi-Christian Eschatology 32
6. 3 The Meaning of History: Knowledge of Good and Evil in Hegel and Fackenheim 51
7. 4 Strategies of Jewish Hegelianism: Emil Fackenheim and Samuel Hirsch 118
8. 5 Can Philosophy Be Positive? The Place of Schelling in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim 145
9. 6 Emil Fackenheim’s Way from Presence to History: Its Grounding in a Critique of Rosenzweig on Revelation 159
10. 7 Fackenheim and Buber on Revelation: Re-evaluating the Existential and Historical Turn Away from Philosophy 184
11. 8 To Captivate the Jewish Thinker: Fackenheim’s Ontological Encounter with Heidegger 203
12. 9 Philosophy in the Age of Auschwitz: Emil Fackenheim and Leo Strauss 232
13. 10 Wiesel and Fackenheim: Theology, Philosophy, and the Problem of Jewish Persecution 256
14. Contributors 289
15. Index 293