Emil L. Fackenheim : philosopher, theologian, Jew /
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| Imprint: | Leiden ; Boston : Brill, 2008. |
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| Description: | xiii, 339 p. : ill. ; 25 cm. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Supplements to The journal of Jewish thought and philosophy ; v. 5 |
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| Format: | Print Book |
| URL for this record: | http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/6822484 |
Table of Contents:
- Dedication
- Acknowledgement
- Foreword
- Bibliographic Abbreviations
- Introductory Remarks
- Part 1. Fackenheim Then and Now
- Fackenheim in the Fifties
- Between Halle and Jerusalem
- Fackenheim's Hermeneutical Circle
- Thought Going to School with Life? Fackenheim's Last Philosophical Testament
- Fackenheim's Paradoxical 614th Commandment: Some Personal Reflections
- Part 2. The Philosophical Dimension of Fackenheim's Thought
- Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss
- Leo Strauss's Challenge to Emil Fackenheim: Heidegger, Radical Historicism, and Diabolical Evil
- Fackenheim's Hegelian Return to Contingency
- Judaism and the Tragic Vision: Emil Fackenheim and the Problem of Dirty Hands
- A Time for Emil Fackenheim, A Time for Baruch Spinoza
- Part 3. The Religious Dimension of Fackenheim's Thought
- Rabbi Fackenheim and Philosophical Encounter with Elijah's Wager
- Tikkun in Fackenheim's Leben-Denken as a Trace of Lurianic Kabbalah
- In Search of a Meaningful Theology of the Holocaust: Reflections on Fackenheim's 614th Commandment
- Emil Fackenheim and the Levitical Order of Thinking
- Bibliography
- Contributors
- Name Index
- Subject Index