To Mend the World Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jeish Thought [Paperback]

This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheims most important book. Paul Mendes-Flohr

... magnificent in sweep and in execution of detail. Franklin H. Littell

In To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way to Judaisms renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notionsabout God, humanity, and revelationhave been severely challenged. He tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, Hegel, Heidegger, and Buber figure prominently in his account.

Acknowledgments

Preface to the Second Edition

Preface to the Midland Edition

Auschwitz as Challenge to Philosophy and Theology

I. Introduction

1. Introductions
2. Systems
3. Revelation
4. The Holocaust
5. Foundations of Future Jewis Thought : Genesis of a Plan
6. Foundations : From Plan to Execution
7. Napoleonic and Related Strategies
8. Language
9. Toward Future Jewish Thought

II. The Problematics of Contemporary Jewish Thought: From Spinoza Beyond Rosenzweig

1. Introducting Spinoza and Rosenzweig
2. Baruch Spinoza
3. Franz Rosenzweig
4. Spinoza and Rosenzweig Today
5. Conclusion

III. The Shibboleth of Revelation: From Spinoza Beyond Hegel

1. Rosenzweig on Hegel
2. Hegel on Judaism and Spinoza
3. Revelation as Shibboleth
4. The Basis of Hegels Mediating Thought-Activity
5. Spinoza dn Hegel on Revelation
6. The Core of the Hegelian Mediation
7. Hegels Mediation between Spinoza and Judaism
8. The Failure of Hegels Mediation and Its Dialectical Results
9. The Move toward the Extremes
10. The End of the Constantinianism and the Turn to Dialogical Openness
11. Catastrophe
12. The Shibboleth of Revelation in Jewish Modernity

IV. Historicity, Rupture, and Tikkun Olam ( Mending the World ): From Rosenzweig Beyond Heidegger

1. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger olCN