To Mend the World

EMIL L. FACKENHEIM is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

• AcknowledgmentsPreface to the Second EditionPreface to the Midland EditionAuschwitz as Challenge to Philosophy and TheologyI. Introduction1. Introductions2. Systems3. Revelation4. The Holocaust5. "Foundations of Future Jewis Thought": Genesis of a Plan6. "Foundations": From Plan to Execution7. Napoleonic and Related Strategies8. Language9. Toward Future Jewish ThoughtII. The Problematics of Contemporary Jewish Thought: From Spinoza Beyond Rosenzweig1. Introducting Spinoza and Rosenzweig2. Baruch Spinoza3. Franz Rosenzweig4. Spinoza and Rosenzweig Today5. ConclusionIII. The Shibboleth of Revelation: From Spinoza Beyond Hegel1. Rosenzweig on Hegel2. Hegel on Judaism and Spinoza3. Revelation as Shibboleth4. The Basis of Hegel's Mediating Thought-Activity5. Spinoza dn Hegel on Revelation6. The Core of the Hegelian Mediation7. Hegel's Mediation between Spinoza and Judaism8. The Failure of Hegel's Mediation and Its Dialectical Results9. The Move toward the Extremes10. The End of the Constantinianism and the Turn to Dialogical Openness11. Catastrophe12. The Shibboleth of Revelation in Jewish ModernityIV. Historicity, Rupture, and Tikkun Olam ("Mending the World"): From Rosenzweig Beyond Heidegger1. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger on Death2. Historicity3. Historicity and Transcendence4. The Ontic-Ontological Circle5. 1933: Year of Decision6. The Age of Technology and the Age of Auschwitz7. Unauthentic Thought after the Holocaust8. The Spectrum of Resistance during the Holocaust: An Essay in Description and Definition9. Resistance as an Ontological Categary: An Essay in Critical Analysis10. Rupture, Teshuva, and Tikkun Olam11. Historicity, Hermeneutics, and Tikkun Olam after the Holocaust12. On Philosophy after the Holocaust13. Concerning Post-Holocaust Christianity14. Jewish Existence after the Holocaust15. EpilogueV. Conclusion: Teshuva Today: Concerning Judaism After the Holocaust1. The Problematics of Teshuva in Our Time2. Rosenzweig after Heidegger3. Yom Kippur after the Holocaust4. The Message of Beit Ha-Tefutsot5. The Sharing of Teshuva after the HolocaustAbbreviationsNotesIndex

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