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