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Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources engages with the philosophers who made the greatest impact on the thought of Emil Fackenheim.
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Introduction
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1. Emil Fackenheim on Moses Maimonides and the "One Great Difference between the Medievals and the Moderns"
Benjamin Lorch, Michigan State University
2. Emil Fackenheim’s Jewish Correction of Kant’s Quasi-Christian Eschatology
Martin D. Yaffe, University of North Texas
3. The Meaning of History: Knowledge of Good and Evil in Hegel and Fackenheim
Paul Wilford, Boston College
4. Strategies of Jewish Hegelianism: Emil Fackenheim and Samuel Hirsch
Martin Kavka, Florida State University
5. Can Philosophy Be Positive? The Place of Schelling in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim
Jeffrey A. Bernstein, College of the Holy Cross
6. Emil Fackenheim’s Way from Presence to History: Its Grounding in a Critique of Rosenzweig on Revelation
Kenneth Hart Green, University of Toronto
7. Fackenheim and Buber on Revelation: Re-evaluating the Existential and Historical Turn Away from Philosophy
Steven Kepnes, Colgate University
8. To Captivate the Jewish Thinker: Fackenheim’s Ontological Encounter with Heidegger
Waller R. Newell, Carleton University
9. Philosophy in the Age of Auschwitz: Emil Fackenheim and Leo Strauss
Kenneth C. Blanchard, Jr., Northern University
10. Wiesel and Fackenheim: Philosophy and the Problem of Persecution
Sharon Portnoff, Connecticut College
Contributors
Index
About the author
Edited by Kenneth Hart Green and Martin D. Yaffe
Summary
Emil Fackenheim’s Post-Holocaust Thought and Its Philosophical Sources engages with the philosophers who made the greatest impact on the thought of Emil Fackenheim.
