Dilemmas in Modern Jewish Thought

The Dialectics of Revelation and History

By: Michael L. Morgan

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Hardcover | 21 August 2001

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"MIchael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai. . . . It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith." --Rabbi Samuel Karff

"This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." --Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman

"This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." --Ethics

" . . . rigorous history of modern Jewish thought . . . " --Choice

Is Judaism a timeless, universal set of beliefs or, rather, is it historical and contingent in its relation to different times and places? Morgan clarifies the tensions and dilemmas that characterize modern thinking about the nature of Judaism and clears the way for Jews to appreciate their historical situation, yet locate enduring values and principles in a post-Holocaust world.

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"Michael Morgan has served up an intellectual treat. These subtle and carefully reasoned essays explore the dilemmas of the post-modern Jew who would take history seriously without losing the commanding presence Israel heard at Sinai... It is a pleasure to be nourished by a fresh mind exploring the tension between reason and revelation, history and faith."- Rabbi Samuel Karff "This is without doubt one of the most significant works in modern Jewish thought and a must for a thoughtful student of contemporary Jewish philosophy." - Rabbie Sheldon Zimmerman "This may well mark the next stage in the long history of Jewish self-understanding." - Ethics " ... rigorous history of modern Jewish thought ... " - Choice

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Acknowledgments
Introduction
Overcoming the Remoteness of the Past: Memory and Historiography in Modern Jewish Thought	p. 1
History and Modern Jewish Thought: Spinoza and Mendelssohn on the Ritual Law	p. 14
Liberalism in Mendelssohn's Jerusalem	p. 27
The Curse of Historicity: The Role of History in Leo Strauss's Jewish Thought	p. 40
Leo Strauss and the Possibility of Jewish Philosophy	p. 55
Judaism and Peter Berger's Heretical Imperative	p. 68
Jewish Ethics after the Holocaust	p. 79
Historicism, Evil, and Post-Holocaust Moral Thought	p. 96
Philosophy, History, and the Jewish Thinker: Jewish Thought and Philosophy in Emil Fackenheim's To Mend the World	p. 111
Franz Rosenzweig, Objectivity, and the New Thinking	p. 125
Jewish Philosophy and Historical Self-Consciousness	p. 133
Contemporary Jewish Thought in America	p. 146
Notes	p. 157
Index	p. 179
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