Kenneth Hart Green (University of Toronto)

The Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim

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Produktbeschreibung

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.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Cambridge University Press
• Seitenzahl: 416
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Oktober 2020
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 229mm x 152mm x 27mm
• Gewicht: 760g
• ISBN-13: 9781107187382
• ISBN-10: 1107187389
• Artikelnr.: 60019510

Autorenporträt

Kenneth Hart Green is Professor in the Department of the Study of Religion at the University of Toronto. A scholar of Jewish Thought, he is the author of numerous journal articles and books, most recently Leo Strauss and the Rediscovery of Maimonides (2013).

Inhaltsangabe

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