Fackenheim’s Jewish Philosophy explores the most important themes of Fackenheim’s philosophical and religious thought and how these remained central, if not always in immutable ways, over his entire career.

Introduction

I. Can There Be Judaism Without Revelation?

II. Selfhood and Freedom: From Situated Agency to the Hermeneutical Self

III. Philosophy after Auschwitz: the Primacy of the Ethical

IV. Fackenheim’s Return to Kant

V. The Hegelian Dimension in Fackenheim’s Thought

VI. Redemption, Messianism, and the State of Israel

VII. History and Thought: Meaning and Dialectic

VIII. The Midrash and Its Framework: Before and After Auschwitz

IX. The Voice of the Jewish Philosopher

X. Fackenheim’s Legacy: Resources for Mending the World