Sharon Jo Portnoff

Reason and Revelation Before Historicism

Strauss and Fackenheim

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Produktbeschreibung

Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence — Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim, an important post-Holocaust Jewish theologian. There has been little consensus, however, on the definitive meaning of their work. Reason and Revelation before Historicism, the first full-length comparison of Strauss and Fackenheim,places the informal teacher and student in conversation alongside sections of their analyses of notable thinkers. Sharon Portnoff suggests that both saw historicism as the nexus of the intersection and tension between philosophy and religion and raised the possibility of the persistence of the permanent in the modern world. Portnoff illuminates our understanding of Strauss's relationship with Judaism, Fackenheim's oft-overshadowed great philosophical depth, and the function and character of Jewish thought in a secular, post-Holocaust world.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Toronto Press
• Seitenzahl: 368
• Erscheinungstermin: 30. Januar 2012
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 155mm x 33mm
• Gewicht: 748g
• ISBN-13: 9781442643079
• ISBN-10: 1442643072
• Artikelnr.: 33808172

Autorenporträt

By Sharon Portnoff

Inhaltsangabe

CHAPTER 1  BACKGROUND AND INTRODUCTION
Part I:  Review of Literature
1. Introduction
Part II  General Background
1. Why is There a Tension Between Philosophy and Revelatory Theology? 
2. The Tension Between Philosophy and Revelatory Theologyin Modern Western
Thought
3. Strauss and Fackenheim on the Tension between Philosophy and Revelatory
Theology in Modern Western Thought
4. The Tension Between Philosophy and Revelation in Jewish Philosophy
5. The Dead End of Resolving the Tension
6. Strauss and Fackenheim:  Two Options to Restore Reason and Revelation
 Part III:  Development of Argument in Chapter Form
7. Overview in Chapter Form
8. Strauss and Fackenheim:  A Note on Methodology
CHAPTER 2  STRAUSS' FORMULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN REASON AND
REVELATION IN MODERN THOUGHT AND HIS REJECTION OF A PRACTICAL  SYNTHESIS
Part I:  Strauss on Western Philosophy
1. Introduction
2. Strauss on the Ancient Philosophers
3. Strauss on Machiavelli
4. Strauss on Hobbes
5. Strauss on Heidegger
Part II:  Strauss on Jewish Philosophy
9. Strauss on the Bible
10. Strauss on Spinoza
11. Strauss on Cohen
12. Strauss on Rosenzweig
13. Conclusion
CHAPTER 3  FACKENHEIM'S FORMULATION OF THE RELATIONSHIP BETWEEN PHILOSOPHY
AND REVELATORY THEOLOGY IN MODERN THOUGHT
Part I  Fackenheim on Western Philosophy
1. Introduction
2. Fackenheim on Kant
3. Fackenheim on Hegel
4. Fackenheim on Schelling
5. Fackenheim on Heidegger
Part II  Fackenheim on Jewish Philosophy
14. Fackenheim on the Bible
15. Fackenheim on Spinoza
16. Fackenheim on Rosenzweig
17. Fackenheim on Buber 
Part III  Fackenheim’s Synthesis
18. Fackenheim’s Synthesis of Revelatory Religion and Philosophy
CHAPTER 4  THE PROBLEM OF HISTORICISM
1. Introduction
2. The Necessity of “Openness” In Philosophic and/or Religious Thought
3. The Problem of Historicism:  Strauss’ Return to Natural Right
4. The Problem of Historicism:  Fackenheim the Philosopher's Return to
History
5. The Problem of Historicism:  Fackenheim the Theologian's Return to
History
6. Conclusion
CHAPTER 5  REASON AND REVELATION:  JEWISH THOUGHT AFTER STRAUSS AND
FACKENHEIM
1. Introduction
2. Strauss:  Jerusalem and Athens
3. Fackenheim's Rejection of the Return to Greek Thought
4. Results from Beginning with and Fackenheim’s Position
5. The Present Writer's Position
BIBLIOGRAPHY