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Intro -- Jewish Themes in Spinoza's Philosophy -- Contents -- Abbreviations -- PART I: Laying the Groundwork -- 1. Introduction by HEIDI M. RAVVEN AND LENN E. GOODMAN -- 2. What Does Spinoza's Ethics Contribute to Jewish Philosophy? by LENN E. GOODMAN -- PART II: Metaphysics -- 3. Love of God in Spinoza by LEE C. RICE -- 4. Spinoza's Metaphysical Hebraism by WARREN ZEV HARVEY -- 5. Maimonides, Spinoza, and the Problem of Creation by KENNETH SEESKIN -- 6. "That Hebrew Word": Spinoza and the Concept of the Shekhinah by WARREN MONTAG -- PART III: Theology and Epistemology -- 7. Maimonides, Spinoza, and the Book of Job by EDWIN M. CURLEY -- 8. Spinoza's Rupture with Tradition- His Hints of a Jewish Modernity by HEIDI M. RAVVEN -- 9. Why Spinoza Chose the Hebrews The Exemplary Function of Prophecy in the Theological-Political Treatise by MICHAEL A. ROSENTHAL -- PART IV: The Historical Setting -- 10. Spinoza's Excommunication by RICHARD H. POPKIN -- About the Contributors -- Index -- A -- B -- C -- D -- E -- F -- G -- H -- I -- J -- K -- L -- M -- N -- O -- P -- Q -- R -- S -- T -- U -- V -- W -- Y -- Z.

Emil L. Fackenheim, one of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his deep and rich engagement with the implications of the Nazi Holocaust on Jewish thought, Christian theology, and philosophy. However, his career as a philosopher and theologian began two decades prior to his first efforts to confront that horrific event. In this book, renowned Fackenheim expert Michael L. Morgan offers the first examination of the full scope of Fackenheim's 60-year career, beyond simply his work on the Holocaust.Fackenheim's Jewish Philosophy explores the most important themes of Fackenheim's philosophical and religious thought and how these remained central, if not always in immutable ways, over his entire career. Morgan also provides insight into Fackenheim's indebtedness to Kant, Hegel, and rabbinic midrash, as well as the changing character of his philosophical "voice." The work concludes with a chapter evaluating Fackenheim's legacy for present and future Jewish philosophy and philosophy more generally.

This paper has two central aims: First, to reappraise Isaiah Berlin's political thought in a historically contextualized way, and in particular: to pay attention to a central conceptual tensions which animates it between, on the one hand, his famous definition of liberalism as resting on a negative concept of liberty and, on the other, his defense of cultural nationalism in general and Zionism in particular. Second, to see what do we gain and what do we lose by dubbing his philosophy Jewish. The discussion will proceed as follows: after describing the conceptual tension (Section 1), I will examine Berlin's discussion of nationalism and explain why comparisons between him and Hans Kohn as well as communitarian interpretations of him are incomplete and have limited merit. I will continue with a brief discussion of Berlin's Jewishness and Zionism (Section 3) and explain why I define this position "Diaspora Zionism". The two concluding sections will discuss Berlin's place within a larger Cold War liberal discourse (Section 5) and why I find it problematic to see his political writings as part of a Jewish political tradition (Section 6).