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Book SynopsisPoints the way to Judaism's renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions - about God, humanity, and revelation - have been severely challenged. This title tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust.
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Table of ContentsAcknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Midland Edition
Auschwitz as Challenge to Philosophy and Theology
I. Introduction
1. Introductions
2. Systems
3. Revelation
4. The Holocaust
5. "Foundations of Future Jewis Thought": Genesis of a Plan
6. "Foundations": From Plan to Execution
7. Napoleonic and Related Strategies
8. Language
9. Toward Future Jewish Thought
II. The Problematics of Contemporary Jewish Thought: From Spinoza Beyond Rosenzweig
1. Introducting Spinoza and Rosenzweig
2. Baruch Spinoza
3. Franz Rosenzweig
4. Spinoza and Rosenzweig Today
5. Conclusion
III. The Shibboleth of Revelation: From Spinoza Beyond Hegel
1. Rosenzweig on Hegel
2. Hegel on Judaism and Spinoza
3. Revelation as Shibboleth
4. The Basis of Hegel's Mediating Thought-Activity
5. Spinoza dn Hegel on Revelation
6. The Core of the Hegelian Mediation
7. Hegel's Mediation between Spinoza and Judaism
8. The Failure of Hegel's Mediation and Its Dialectical Results
9. The Move toward the Extremes
10. The End of the Constantinianism and the Turn to Dialogical Openness
11. Catastrophe
12. The Shibboleth of Revelation in Jewish Modernity
IV. Historicity, Rupture, and Tikkun Olam ("Mending the World"): From Rosenzweig Beyond Heidegger
1. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger on Death
2. Historicity
3. Historicity and Transcendence
4. The Ontic-Ontological Circle
5. 1933: Year of Decision
6. The Age of Technology and the Age of Auschwitz
7. Unauthentic Thought after the Holocaust
8. The Spectrum of Resistance during the Holocaust: An Essay in Description and Definition
9. Resistance as an Ontological Categary: An Essay in Critical Analysis
10. Rupture, Teshuva, and Tikkun Olam
11. Historicity, Hermeneutics, and Tikkun Olam after the Holocaust
12. On Philosophy after the Holocaust
13. Concerning Post-Holocaust Christianity
14. Jewish Existence after the Holocaust
15. Epilogue
V. Conclusion: Teshuva Today: Concerning Judaism After the Holocaust
1. The Problematics of Teshuva in Our Time
2. Rosenzweig after Heidegger
3. Yom Kippur after the Holocaust
4. The Message of Beit Ha-Tefutsot
5. The Sharing of Teshuva after the Holocaust
Abbreviations
Notes
Index
