| Leora Batnitzky is Asssociate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: the Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered and editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion. She is co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly. |
| Acknowledgments List of Abbreviations Preface ART ONE: PHILOSOPHY 1 Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem 1.1. Jewish Philosophy between Athens and Jerusalem 1.2. After Heidegger: Maimonides between Athens and Jerusalem 1.3. The Scope of Philosophy 1.4. Back to Nature? 1.5. The Philosophical Return to Religion or the Religious Turn to Philosophy? 1.6. Philosophy and the Problem of Evil 2 Levinas's Defense of Modern Philosophy: How Strauss Might Respond 2.1. The Argument of Totality and Infinity 2.2. Heidegger and Husserl 2.3. Levinas and Descartes 2.4. The Separable Self and Ethics or Descartes Once Again 2.5. How to Understand Levinas's Use of Descartes: What Strauss Might Say 2.6. The Difference between Levinas and Strauss or on Descartes Yet Again 2.7. Levinas and the Messianic Aspirations of Philosophy PART TWO: REVELATION 3 ‘Freedom Depends Upon Its Bondage': The Shared Debt to Franz Rosenzweig 3.1. Levinas's Reading: Rosenzweig's Opposition to Totality 3.2. Strauss's Reading: God as Wholly Other 3.3. What to Make of this Difference: Levinas as Post-Christian Philosopher 3.4. Modern Philosophy and the Legacy of Christianity 4 An Irrationalist Rationalism: Levinas's Transformation of Hermann Cohen 4.1. Future and Past, Inside and Out 4.2. The Shared Criticism of Spinoza: A Case Study 4.3. The Difference between Cohen and Levinas: Reason vs. Sensibility 4.4. Cohen, Levinas, and the Legacy of Kant 5 The Possibility of Premodern Rationalism: Strauss's Transformation of Hermann Cohen 5.1. History and Truth, Outside and In 5.2. Reading Spinoza or on the Necessity of Historicizing Philosophy 5.3. Maimonides and the Possibility of Premodern Rationalism 5.4. Beyond Cohen? PART THREE: POLITICS 6 Against Utopia: Law and Its Limits 6.1. Philosophy, Law, and the Difference between Judaism and Christianity 6.2. The Question of Natural Right 6.3. Skepticism and Antiutopianism 6.4. Skepticism and Religion 6.5. Religion and Society, or Religion in America 7 Zionism and the Discovery of Prophetic Politics 7.1. The Early Strauss: Zionism and Law 7.2. Strauss's Prophetic Politics out of the Sources of Zionism 7.3. Levinas's Zionism: From Politics to Religion 7.4. Religion and Politics …… Notes References Index |
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