Indexed. Fackenheim's academic career was based on his competence as a professor of Hegel's philosophy. In spite of his awareness of the Holocaust, he attempted to reconcile Hegel's concept of Absolute Spirit with traditional belief in the Hebrew God. An example of his erudition is his following judgment regarding Hegel's seemingly self-contradictory wordplay: "It is not perverse to say that [Hegel] could have written with the elegance of a Schopenhauer only if he had shared that thinker's superficiality."

The Religious Dimension in Hegel's Thought

Emil L. Fackenheim

Religion & Spirituality

University of Chicago Press

"This subtle and nuanced study is clearly Fackenheim’s most important book." ―Paul Mendes-Flohr
"... magnificent in sweep and in execution of detail." ―Franklin H. Littell
In To Mend the World Emil L. Fackenheim points the way to Judaism’s renewal in a world and an age in which all of our notions―about God, humanity, and revelation―have been severely challenged. He tests the resources within Judaism for healing the breach between secularism and revelation after the Holocaust. Spinoza, Rosenzweig, Hegel, Heidegger, and Buber figure prominently in his account.

To Mend the World: Foundations of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought

Politics & Social Sciences

Philosophy

Indiana University Press

If, in content and in method, philosophy and religion conflict, can there be a Jewish philosophy? What makes a Jewish thinker a philosopher? Emil L. Fackenheim confronts these questions in a profound and insightful series of essays on the great Jewish thinkers from Maimonides through Hermann Cohen, Martin Buber, Franz Rosenzweig, and Leo Strauss. Fackenheim also contemplates the task of Jewish philosophy after the Holocaust. While providing access to key Jewish thinkers of the past, this volume highlights the exciting achievements of one of today's most creative and most important Jewish philosophers.

Jewish Philosophers and Jewish Philosophy

God's Presence in History

New York University Press/University of London Press Ltd.

Metaphysics and Historicity

Marquette University Press

Metaphysics and Historicity (Aquinas Lecture 26)

Marquette Univ Pr

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