Emil Fackenheim was a Reform rabbi and a philosopher. He managed to escape Germany in 1939, immigrating to Canada, where he received his doctorate and led a congregation. For many years he kept his religious and philosophical work separate, but in 1967, he realized that it was necessary to integrate them and to finally delve into the moral and philosophical ramifications of the Holocaust. In this group of essays Portnoff (religious studies, Pomona College) Diamond (Jewish studies, University of Waterloo, Ontario) and Yaffe (philosophy and religious studies, University of North Texas) have selected articles that cover the stages of Fackenheim's life and philosophy. Annotation ©2008 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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The overall aim of the book, to provide a forum through which to introduce Fackenheims though to a broader audience (5), is well served by the scope and depth of the essays gathered here, a good many of which were written by former students of Fackenheim for whom their teachers legacy clearly provides a continuing provocation.
Philip G. Ziegler, in Studies in Religion, Vol. 41, No. 3
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Acknowledgement |
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Foreword |
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Introductory Remarks |
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PART ONE FACKENHEIM THEN AND NOW |
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Fackenheim in the Fifties |
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Between Halle and Jerusalem |
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25 | (18) |
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Fackenheim's Hermeneutical Circle |
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43 | (12) |
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Thought Going to School with Life? Fackenheim's Last Philosophical Testament |
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55 | (34) |
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Fackenheim's Paradoxical 614th Commandment: Some Personal Reflections |
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89 | (18) |
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PART TWO THE PHILOSOPHICAL DIMENSION OF FACKENHEIM'S THOUGHT |
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Historicism and Revelation in Emil Fackenheim's Self-Distancing from Leo Strauss |
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107 | (18) |
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Leo Strauss's Challenge to Emil Fackenheim: Heidegger, Radical Historicism, and Diabolical Evil |
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125 | (36) |
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Fackenheim's Hegelian Return to Contingency |
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161 | (18) |
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Judaism and the Tragic Vision: Emil Fackenheim and the Problem of Dirty Hands |
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179 | (32) |
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A Time for Emil Fackenheim, A Time for Baruch Spinoza |
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211 | (10) |
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PART THREE THE RELIGIOUS DIMENSION OF FACKENHEIM'S THOUGHT |
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Rabbi Fackenheim and Philosophical Encounter with Elijah's Wager |
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Tikkun in Fackenheim's Leben-Denken as a Trace of Lurianic Kabbalah |
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235 | (16) |
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In Search of a Meaningful Theology of the Holocaust: Reflections on Fackenheim's 614th Commandment |
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Emil Fackenheim and the Levitical Order of Thinking |
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295 | (28) |
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Bibliography |
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Contributors |
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331 | (4) |
Name Index |
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Subject Index |
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Sharon Portnoff, Ph.D. (2005) in Jewish Philosophy, Jewish Theological Seminary, is currently Visiting Assistant Professor of Religious Studies at Pomona College. She has delivered papers on Primo Levi, Dante, Louis Zukofsky and Emil L. Fackenheim, and her poems have appeared in Midstream and Chants. She is currently working on a book, tentatively titled The Interface of Fiction and Reality: Primo Levis Use of Dantes Inferno in Se questo č un uomo. James A. Diamond, Ph.D. (1999) in Philosophy, University of Toronto, LL.M. (1979), New York University School of Law, is the Joseph and Wolf Lebovic Chair of Jewish Studies and Director of the Friedberg Genizah Project, at the University of Waterloo, Ontario. His publications include Maimonides and the Hermeneutics of Concealment, (winner of Canadian Jewish Book Award, 2002), Converts, Heretics and Lepers: Maimonides and the Outsider, and articles in such journals as AJS Review, Jewish History, Jewish Quarterly Review, Jewish Studies Quarterly, The Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, Medieval Philosophy and Theology, Philosophy and Literature and Vetus Testamentum. Martin D. Yaffe, Ph.D. (1968) in Philosophy, Claremont Graduate University, is Professor of Philosophy and Religion Studies at University of North Texas. He is the author of Shylock and the Jewish Question and Judaism and Environmental Ethics: A Reader, co-translator of Aquinas Literal Exposition on the Book of Job and translator of Spinozas Theologico-Political Treatise, the philosophical founding-document of both modern biblical criticism and modern liberal democracy. He is currently completing a translation from the German of Leo Strausss essays on Moses Mendelssohn, originally contained in the Jubilee Edition of Mendelssohns works (1929ff.), of which Strauss was a co-editor.