Emil L. Fackenheim

by Portnoff, Sharon; Diamond, James A.; Yaffe, Martin D.; Wiesel, Elie

• ISBN13: 9789004157675
• ISBN10: 9004157670
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-03-30
• Publisher: Brill Academic Pub

Summary

This volume is a scholarly tribute to Fackenheim's memory. It covers a wide spectrum of Fackenheim's work including biographical, philosophical, and theological aspects of his thought that have not been addressed adequately in the past. Elie Wiesel, a close personal friend to Fackenheim for over 30 years, has provided the Foreword for the volume.

Table of Contents

Dedication	p. vii
Acknowledgement	p. ix
Foreword	p. xi
Bibliographic Abbreviations	p. xv
Introductory Remarks	p. 1
Fackenheim Then and Now
Fackenheim in the Fifties	p. 17
Between Halle and Jerusalem	p. 25
Fackenheim's Hermeneutical Circle	p. 43
Thought Going to School with Life? Fackenheim's Last Philosophical Testament	p. 55
Fackenheim's Paradoxical 614th Commandment: Some Personal Reflections	p. 89
The Philosophical Dimension of Fackenheim's Thought
Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss	p. 107
Leo Strauss's Challenge to Emil Fackenheim: Heidegger, Radical Historicism, and Diabolical Evil	p. 125
Fackenheim's Hegelian Return to Contingency	p. 161
Judaism and the Tragic Vision: Emil Fackenheim and the Problem of Dirty Hands	p. 179
A Time for Emil Fackenheim, A Time for Baruch Spinoza	p. 211
The Religious Dimension of Fackenheim's Thought
Rabbi Fackenheim and Philosophical Encounter with Elijah's Wager	p. 221
Tikkun in Fackenheim's Leben-Denken as a Trace of Lurianic Kabbalah	p. 235
In Search of a Meaningful Theology of the Holocaust: Reflections on Fackenheim's 614th Commandment	p. 251
Emil Fackenheim and the Levitical Order of Thinking	p. 295
Bibliography	p. 323
Contributors	p. 331
Name Index	p. 335
Subject Index	p. 337
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