The Philosopher as Witness: Fackenheim and Responses to the Holocaust

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Summary

Responses to Fackenheim's reflections on the centrality of the Holocaust to philosophy, Jewish thought, and contemporary experience.

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Preface	p. vii
Reflections
In Memory of Leo Baeck and Other Jewish Thinkers in "Dark Times": Once More, "After Auschwitz, Jerusalem"	p. 3
Hegel and "The Jewish Problem"	p. 15
Critique
Hegel's Ghost: "Witness" and "Testimony" in the Post-Holocaust Philosophy of Emil Fackenheim	p. 29
Fackenheim on Passover after the Holocaust	p. 39
Of Systems and the Systematic Labor of Thought: Fackenheim as Philosopher of His Time	p. 49
Fackenheim and Levinas: Living and Thinking after Auschwitz	p. 61
The Holocaust and the Foundations of Future Philosophy: Fackenheim and Strauss	p. 75
Fackenheim and Strauss	p. 87
Response
Emil Fackenheim: Theodicy, and the Tikkun of Protest	p. 105
The Holocaust Is a Christian Issue: Christology Revisited	p. 117
The Holocaust-Tragedy for the Jewish People, Credibility Crisis for Christendom	p. 133
Man or Muselmann?: Fackenheim's Elaboration on Levi's Question	p. 147
Emil Fackenheim, Irving Howe, and the Fate of Secular Jewishness	p. 163
She'erith Hapleitah: Reflections of a Historian	p. 173
Willful Murder in the Lublin District of Poland	p. 185
Metahistory, Redemption, and the Shofar of Emil Fackenheim	p. 207
List of Contributors	p. 225
Index	p. 227
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