To Mend the World

"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. LittellIn 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.

EMIL L. FACKENHEIM is Professor Emeritus of Philosophy at the University of Toronto and Fellow of the Institute of Contemporary Jewry at the Hebrew University of Jerusalem.

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Second Edition
Preface to the Midland Edition
Auschwitz as Challenge to Philosophy and Theology
Introduction	p. 1
Systems	p. 4
Revelation	p. 6
The Holocaust	p. 9
"Foundations of Future Jewish Thought": Genesis of a Plan	p. 14
"Foundations": From Plan to Execution	p. 19
Napoleonic and Related Strategies	p. 22
Language	p. 26
Toward Future Jewish Thought	p. 28
The Problematics of Contemporary Jewish Thought: From Spinoza Beyond Rosenzweig	p. 31
Introducing Spinoza and Rosenzweig	p. 33
Baruch Spinoza	p. 38
Franz Rosenzweig	p. 58
Spinoza and Rosenzweig Today	p. 91
The Shibboleth of Revelation: From Spinoza Beyond Hegel	p. 103
Rosenzweig on Hegel	p. 105
Hegel on Judaism and Spinoza	p. 107
Revelation as Shibboleth	p. 110
The Basis of Hegel's Mediating Thought-Activity	p. 111
Spinoza and Hegel on Revelation	p. 115
The Core of the Hegelian Mediation	p. 116
Hegel's Mediation between Spinoza and Judaism	p. 117
The Failure of Hegel's Mediation and Its Dialectical Results	p. 119
The Move toward the Extremes	p. 120
The End of Constantinianism and the Turn to Dialogical Openness	p. 127
Catastrophe	p. 130
The Shibboleth of Revelation in Jewish Modernity	p. 136
Historicity, Rupture, and Tikkun Olam ("Mending the World"): From Rosenzweig Beyond Heidegger	p. 147
Spinoza, Rosenzweig, and Heidegger on Death	p. 149
Historicity	p. 151
Historicity and Transcendence	p. 154
The Ontic-Ontological Circle	p. 162
1933: Year of Decision	p. 166
The Age of Technology and the Age of Auschwitz	p. 171
Unauthentic Thought after the Holocaust	p. 190
The Spectrum of Resistance during the Holocaust: An Essay in Description and Definition	p. 201
Resistance as an Ontological Category: An Essay in Critical Analysis	p. 225
Rupture, Teshuva, and Tikkun Olam	p. 250
Historicity, Hermeneutics, and Tikkun Olam after the Holocaust	p. 256
On Philosophy after the Holocaust	p. 262
Concerning Post-Holocaust Christianity	p. 278
Jewish Existence after the Holocaust	p. 294
Conclusion: Teshuva Today: Concerning Judaism After the Holocaust	p. 315
The Problematics of Teshuva in Our Time	p. 317
Rosenzweig after Heidegger	p. 320
Yom Kippur after the Holocaust	p. 321
The Message of Beit Ha-Tefutsot	p. 325
The Sharing of Teshuva after the Holocaust	p. 326
Abbreviations	p. 332
Notes	p. 335
Index	p. 345
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