The Cambridge Companion to Modern Jewish Philosophy »

Michael L. Morgan has been a professor at Indiana University for 31 years and, in 2004, was named a Chancellor's Professor. He has published articles in a variety of journals and has edited several books, including: Interim Judaism (2001), Beyond Auschwitz: Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought in America (2001), and Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought: The Dialectics of Revelation and History (1992).

Peter Eli Gordon has published widely on topics in both modern European intellectual history and modern Jewish thought. He is presently Professor of History at Harvard University and faculty affiliate at the Center for European Studies. His book, Rosenzweig and Heidegger, Between Judaism and German Philosophy (2003), received several distinguished awards.

Sixteen original essays by internationally prominent scholars on the central figures of modern Jewish philosophy from Spinoza to Levinas.

Contributors     ix
Acknowledgments     xiii
Chronology     xvii
Introduction: Modern Jewish Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and Modern Judaism   Michael L. Morgan   Peter Eli Gordon     1
Baruch Spinoza and the Naturalization of Judaism   Steven Nadler     14
The Liberalism of Moses Mendelssohn   Allan Arkush     35
Jewish Philosophy after Kant: The Legacy of Salomon Maimon   Paul W. Franks     53
Hermann Cohen: Judaism and Critical Idealism   Andrea Poma     80
Self, Other, Text, God: The Dialogical Thought of Martin Buber   Tamra Wright     102
Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence   Peter Eli Gordon     122
Leo Strauss and Modern Jewish Thought   Steven B. Smith     147
Messianism and Modern Jewish Philosophy   Pierre Bouretz     170
Ethics, Authority, and Autonomy   Kenneth Seeskin     192
Joseph Soloveitchik and Halakhic Man   Lawrence J. Kaplan     209
Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the Primacy of the Ethical   Richard A. Cohen     234
Emil Fackenheim, the Holocaust, and Philosophy   Michael L. Morgan     256
Evil,Suffering, and the Holocaust   Berel Lang     277
Revelation, Language, and Commentary: From Buber to Derrida   Leora Batnitzky     300
Feminism and Modern Jewish Philosophy   Tamar Rudavsky     324
Bibliography     349
Index     365