The philosopher as witness : Fackenheim and responses to the Holocaust / edited by Michael L. Morgan and Benjamin Pollock.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Morgan, Michael L., 1944-

Pollock, Benjamin, 1971-

Series:

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought.

SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945)--Influence.

Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945).

Holocaust (Jewish theology).

Jewish philosophy.

Fackenheim, Emil L.

Physical Description:

xii, 238 p.

Place of Publication:

Albany : State University of New York Press, c2008.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.

Contents:

In memory of Leo Baeck and other Jewish thinkers in dark times: once more, after Auschwitz, Jerusalem / Emil L. Fackenheim

Hegel and the Jewish problem / Emil L. Fackenheim

Hegel's ghost: witness and testimony in the philosophy of Emil Fackenheim / Susan E. Shapiro

Fackenheim on Passover after the Holocaust / Warren Zev Harvey

Of systems and the systematic labor of thought: Fackenheim as philosopher of his time / Benjamin Pollock

Fackenheim and Levinas: living and thinking after Auschwitz / Michael L. Morgan

The Holocaust and the foundations of future philosophy: Fackenheim and Strauss / Solomon Goldberg

Fackenheim and Strauss / Catherine Zuckert

Emil Fackenheim: theodicy, and the tikkun of protest / David R. Blumenthal

The Holocaust is a Christian issue / Richard A. Cohen

The Holocaust: tragedy for the Jewish people, credibility crisis for Christendom / Franklin H. Littell

Man or Muselmann: Fackenheim's elaboration on Levi's question / David Patterson

Emil Fackenheim, Irving Howe, and the fate of secular Jewishness / Edward Alexander

She'erith Hapleitah: reflections of an historian / Zeev Mankowitz

Willful murder in the Lublin district of Poland / David Silberklang.

Notes:

Bibliographic Level Mode of Issuance: Monograph

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9780791478295

0791478297

9781435648524

1435648528

OCLC:

232652566