Acknowledgments
Introduction
Chapter 1 Overcoming the Remoteness of the Past: Memory and Historiography in Modern Jewish Thought
Chapter 2 History and Modern Jewish Thought: Spinoza and Mendelssohn on the Ritual Law
Chapter 3 Liberalism in Mendelssohn’s Jerusalem
Chapter 4 The Curse of Historicity: The Role of History in Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 5 Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish Philosophy
Chapter 6 Judaism and Peter Berger’s Heretical Imperative
Chapter 7 Jewish Ethics after the Holocaust
Chapter 8 Historicism, Evil, and Post-Holocaust Moral Thought
Chapter 9 Philosophy, History, and the Jewish Thinker: Jewish Thought and Philosophy in Emil Fackenheim’s To Mend the World
Chapter 10 Franz Rosenzweig, Objectivity, and the New Thinking
Chapter 11 Jewish Philosophy and Historical Self-Consciousness
Chapter 12 Contemporary Jewish Thought in America
Notes
Index