Jewish Philosophy for the Twenty-First Century

Hava Tirosh-Samuelson is a Professor of History, Irving and Miriam Lowe Professor of Modern Judaism, and Director of the Center for Jewish Studies at Arizona State University in Tempe, Arizona. Aaron W. Hughes holds the Philip S. Bernstein Chair of Jewish Studies in the Department of Religion and Classics at the University of Rochester.

• Introduction Aaron W. Hughes and Hava Tirosh-SamuelsonChapter One: The Historian as Thinker: Reflections on (Jewish) Intellectual History Asher D. BiemannChapter Two: After Germany: An American Jewish Philosophical Manifesto Zachary J. BraitermanChapter Three: Constructing a Jewish Philosophy of Being toward Death James A. DiamondChapter Four: Jewish Philosophy: Living Language at Its Limits Cass FisherChapter Five: Toward a Synthetic Philosophy Lenn Evan GoodmanChapter Six: Jewish Philosophy Tomorrow: Post-messianic and Post-lachrymose Warren Zev HarveyChapter Seven: Transgressing Boundaries: Jewish Philosophy and the Palestinian-Israeli Conflict Aaron W. HughesChapter Eight: Philosophy, the Academy, and the Future of Jewish Learning Claire E. KatzChapter Nine: Revisioning the Jewish Philosophical Encounter with Christianity Martin Kavka and Randi RashkoverChapter Ten: Doubt and Certainty in Contemporary Jewish Piety Shaul MagidChapter Eleven: Otherness and a Vital Jewish Religious Identity Ephraim MeirChapter Twelve: The Need for Jewish Philosophy Alan MittlemanChapter Thirteen: Historicity, Dialogical Philosophy, and Moral Normativity: Discovering the Second Person Michael L. MorganChapter Fourteen: Feminism, Psychoanalysis, and the Jewish Philosophers of Encounter Michael OppenheimChapter Fifteen: A Shadowed Light: Continuity and New Directions in Jewish Philosophy Sarah PessinChapter Sixteen: Jewish Philosophy, Ethics, and the New Brain Sciences Heidi M. RavvenChapter Seventeen: Good Accused: Jewish Philosophy as Antitheodicy Bruce RosenstockChapter Eighteen: Overcoming the Epistemological Barrier Tamar RossChapter Twenty: A Plea for Transcendence Kenneth SeeskinChapter Twenty-One: The Preciousness of Being Human: Jewish Philosophy and the Challenge of Technology Hava Tirosh-SamuelsonChapter Twenty-Two: In Search of the Eternal Israel: Back to an Intellectual Journey Shmuel TriganoChapter Twenty-Three: Skepticism and the Philosopher's Keeping Faith Elliot R. Wolfson