MICHAEL L. MORGAN is Professor in the Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of Platonic Piety: Philosophy and Ritual in Fourth Century Athens and editor of The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim and Classics of Moral and Political Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Overcoming the Remoteness of the Past: Memory and Historiography in Modern Jewish ThoughtChapter 2 History and Modern Jewish Thought: Spinoza and Mendelssohn on the Ritual LawChapter 3 Liberalism in Mendelssohn's JerusalemChapter 4 The Curse of Historicity: The Role of History in Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 5 Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 6 Judaism and Peter Berger's Heretical ImperativeChapter 7 Jewish Ethics after the HolocaustChapter 8 Historicism, Evil, and Post-Holocaust Moral ThoughtChapter 9 Philosophy, History, and the Jewish Thinker: Jewish Thought and Philosophy in Emil Fackenheim's To Mend the WorldChapter 10 Franz Rosenzweig, Objectivity, and the New ThinkingChapter 11 Jewish Philosophy and Historical Self-ConsciousnessChapter 12 Contemporary Jewish Thought in AmericaNotesIndex

"Michael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." - Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." - Ethics " ... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought ... " - Choice

MICHAEL L. MORGAN is Professor in the Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of Platonic Piety: Philosophy and Ritual in Fourth Century Athens and editor of The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim and Classics of Moral and Political Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Overcoming the Remoteness of the Past: Memory and Historiography in Modern Jewish ThoughtChapter 2 History and Modern Jewish Thought: Spinoza and Mendelssohn on the Ritual LawChapter 3 Liberalism in Mendelssohn's JerusalemChapter 4 The Curse of Historicity: The Role of History in Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 5 Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 6 Judaism and Peter Berger's Heretical ImperativeChapter 7 Jewish Ethics after the HolocaustChapter 8 Historicism, Evil, and Post-Holocaust Moral ThoughtChapter 9 Philosophy, History, and the Jewish Thinker: Jewish Thought and Philosophy in Emil Fackenheim's To Mend the WorldChapter 10 Franz Rosenzweig, Objectivity, and the New ThinkingChapter 11 Jewish Philosophy and Historical Self-ConsciousnessChapter 12 Contemporary Jewish Thought in AmericaNotesIndex

"Michael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." - Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." - Ethics " ... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought ... " - Choice

MICHAEL L. MORGAN is Professor in the Philosophy and Jewish Studies Program at Indiana University. He is the author of Platonic Piety: Philosophy and Ritual in Fourth Century Athens and editor of The Jewish Thought of Emil Fackenheim and Classics of Moral and Political Theory.

• AcknowledgmentsIntroductionChapter 1 Overcoming the Remoteness of the Past: Memory and Historiography in Modern Jewish ThoughtChapter 2 History and Modern Jewish Thought: Spinoza and Mendelssohn on the Ritual LawChapter 3 Liberalism in Mendelssohn's JerusalemChapter 4 The Curse of Historicity: The Role of History in Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 5 Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish PhilosophyChapter 6 Judaism and Peter Berger's Heretical ImperativeChapter 7 Jewish Ethics after the HolocaustChapter 8 Historicism, Evil, and Post-Holocaust Moral ThoughtChapter 9 Philosophy, History, and the Jewish Thinker: Jewish Thought and Philosophy in Emil Fackenheim's To Mend the WorldChapter 10 Franz Rosenzweig, Objectivity, and the New ThinkingChapter 11 Jewish Philosophy and Historical Self-ConsciousnessChapter 12 Contemporary Jewish Thought in AmericaNotesIndex

"Michael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." - Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." - Ethics " ... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought ... " - Choice