The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim: From Revelation to the Holocaust

ISBN-13: 9781107187382 / Angielski / Twarda / 2020 / 416 str.

Kenneth Hart (University of Toronto) Green

Opis

Addresses Fackenheim's early concern with revelation and traces how and why he moved to his later focus on the Holocaust. This books shows the deeper thought he developed about the Holocaust as an event which ruptured history: it brought about a change in the very structure of being. Thus, it changes how we view all things.

Recenzje

'The book is the consummation of a lifetime of reflection not only on Fackenheim's unique combination of Jewish thought and philosophical speculation but also on those few, fundamental, and enduring questions that vex every age-the relation between reason and revelation … Green's familiarity with the tradition […] allows him to guide his readers through a number of philosophical and theological questions, attending to Fackenheim's debt to the tradition while also illustrating his unique contribution and innovative response to the Holocaust, the crisis of his age.' Paul Wilford, German Idealism and the Philosophy of History

Spis treści

Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Introduction: The Unending Struggle with Revelation in the Thought of Emil Fackenheim; 1. What Is Faith?; 2. Individual vs. Collective, Rational vs. Mystical; 3. Revelation as a Possibility; 4. On Authority, Tradition, and History; 5. Divine Power versus Human Freedom; 6. From Presence to History; 7. Confronting Radical Evil as Rupture; 8. Diabolical Revelation and the Holocaust; 9. Negative Absolute and Fragmentary Transcendence; Conclusion: Revelation of the Diabolical Truth in History; Bibliography; Index