P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 the cambridge companion to MODERN JEWISH PHILOSOPHY TheCambridgeCompaniontoModernJewishPhilosophyisacollec- tionoforiginalessaysthatexaminetheworkofsomeofthemostimpor- tantJewishthinkersofthemodernera–theperiodextendingfromthe seventeenthcenturytothelatetwentiethcentury. Editors Michael L. Morgan and Peter Eli Gordon have brought togetheragroupofworld-renownedscholarstopaintabroadandrich pictureofthetraditionofmodernJewishphilosophyoveraperiodof fourhundredyears.Beginningwiththeseventeenthcentury,modern Jewishphilosophydevelopedamongthinkerswhorespondedtothenew scienceandmodernphilosophyinthecourseofreflectingonthenature ofJudaismandJewishlife. Theessaysaddressthemesthatarecentraltothetraditionofmod- ernJewishphilosophy–languageandrevelation,autonomyandauthor- ity,theproblemofevil,Messianism,theinfluenceofKant,andfemi- nism–anddiscussindepththeworkofmajorthinkerssuchasSpinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss,Levinas,Maimon,Benjamin,Derrida,Scholem,andArendt. Michael L. Morgan is Professor of Philosophy and Jewish Studies at Indiana University. In 2004, he was named a Chancellor’s Professor. Hehaspublishedarticlesinavarietyofjournalsandhaswrittensev- eralbooks,includingInterimJudaism(2001);BeyondAuschwitz:Post- HolocaustJewishThoughtinAmerica(2001);andDilemmasinModern JewishThought:TheDialecticsofRevelationandHistory(1992). PeterEliGordonisProfessorofHistoryatHarvardUniversity.Hehas published widely on topics in modern European intellectual history, modernContinentalphilosophy,andmodernJewishthought.Hisbook, RosenzweigandHeidegger:BetweenJudaismandGermanPhilosophy (2003),receivedseveraldistinguishedawards,includingtheGoldstein- GorenPrizeforthebestbookinJewishphilosophy,theSaloW.Baron PrizeforthebestfirstbookinJewishhistory,andthe2003Forkosch Prizeforthebestbookinintellectualhistory. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 i P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 ii P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 cambridge companions to religion Thisisaseriesofcompanionstomajortopicsandkeyfiguresin theologyandreligiousstudies.Eachvolumecontainsspecially commissionedchaptersbyinternationalscholarsthatprovidean accessibleandstimulatingintroductiontothesubjectfornewreaders andnonspecialists. 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Morgan IndianaUniversity Peter Eli Gordon HarvardUniversity Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 v P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 cambridgeuniversitypress Cambridge,NewYork,Melbourne,Madrid,CapeTown,Singapore,Sa˜oPaulo CambridgeUniversityPress 32AvenueoftheAmericas,NewYork,ny10013-2473,usa www.cambridge.org Informationonthistitle:www.cambridge.org/9780521813129 (cid:2)c CambridgeUniversityPress2007 Thispublicationisincopyright.Subjecttostatutoryexception andtotheprovisionsofrelevantcollectivelicensingagreements, noreproductionofanypartmaytakeplacewithout thewrittenpermissionofCambridgeUniversityPress. Firstpublished2007 PrintedintheUnitedStatesofAmerica AcatalogrecordforthispublicationisavailablefromtheBritishLibrary. LibraryofCongressCataloginginPublicationData Morgan,MichaelL.,1944– TheCambridgecompaniontomodernJewishphilosophy/MichaelL.Morgan andPeterEliGordon. p. cm. Includesbibliographicalreferencesandindex. isbn-13:978-0-521-81312-9(hardback) isbn-13:978-0-521-01255-3(pbk.) 1.Philosophy,Jewish. 2.Philosophy,Modern. 3.Jewishphilosophers. 4.Judaism–History–Modernperiod,1750–. I.Gordon,PeterEli. II.Title. b755.m67 2007 181(cid:3).06–dc22 2006031065 isbn 978-0-521-81312-9hardback isbn 978-0-521-01255-3paperback CambridgeUniversityPresshasnoresponsibilityfor thepersistenceoraccuracyofurlsforexternalor third-partyInternetWebsitesreferredtointhispublication anddoesnotguaranteethatanycontentonsuch Websitesis,orwillremain,accurateorappropriate. Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 vi P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 Contents Contributors page ix Acknowledgments xiii Chronology xvii 1. Introduction:ModernJewishPhilosophy,Modern Philosophy,andModernJudaism 1 michael l. morgan and peter eli gordon 2. BaruchSpinozaandtheNaturalizationofJudaism 14 steven nadler 3. TheLiberalismofMosesMendelssohn 35 allan arkush 4. JewishPhilosophyafterKant:TheLegacy ofSalomonMaimon 53 paul w. franks 5. HermannCohen:JudaismandCriticalIdealism 80 andrea poma 6. Self,Other,Text,God:TheDialogicalThought ofMartinBuber 102 tamra wright 7. FranzRosenzweigandthePhilosophy ofJewishExistence 122 peter eli gordon 8. LeoStraussandModernJewishThought 147 steven b. smith 9. MessianismandModernJewishPhilosophy 170 pierre bouretz 10. Ethics,Authority,andAutonomy 192 kenneth seeskin 11. JosephSoloveitchikandHalakhicMan 209 lawrence j. kaplan vii Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 viii Contents 12. EmmanuelLevinas:JudaismandthePrimacy oftheEthical 234 richard a. cohen 13. EmilFackenheim,theHolocaust,andPhilosophy 256 michael l. morgan 14. Evil,Suffering,andtheHolocaust 277 berel lang 15. Revelation,Language,andCommentary:FromBuber toDerrida 300 leora batnitzky 16. FeminismandModernJewishPhilosophy 324 tamar rudavsky Bibliography 349 Index 365 Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007 P1:SBT 0521813123agg.xml CUNY742/Morgan 0521813123 March9,2007 18:11 Contributors AllanArkushisProfessorofJudaicStudiesandHistoryatBinghamtonUniver- sity.HeistheauthorofMosesMendelssohnandtheEnlightenment(1994)and numerousarticlesonmodernJewishhistoryandthought. LeoraBatnitzkyisAssociateProfessorofReligionatPrincetonUniversity.She istheauthorofLeoStraussandEmmanuelLevinas:PhilosophyandthePolitics ofRevelation(2006)andIdolatryandRepresentation:ThePhilosophyofFranz RosenzweigReconsidered(2000).SheisalsotheeditoroftheforthcomingMartin Buber:SchriftenzurPhilosophieundReligionand,since2004,theco-editorof JewishStudiesQuarterly. PierreBouretzisProfessorofPhilosophyattheE´coledesHautesE´tudesenSci- encesSociales(Paris).AmonghisrecentpublicationsareLatourdeBabel,with MarcdeLaunayandJean-LouisScheffer(2003);Te´moinsdufutur:Philosophie etmessianisme(2003);andQu’appelle-t-onphilosopher?(2006). Richard A. Cohen is the Isaac Swift Distinguished Professor of Judaic Studies at the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is the author of Ethics, Exegesis, and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas (2001) and Elevations: TheHeightoftheGoodinRosenzweigandLevinas(1994);thetranslatoroffour booksbyLevinas;theeditorofseveralbooksincontemporarythought;andthe authorofnumerousarticlesincontemporaryContinentalphilosophy. PaulW.FranksisProfessorofPhilosophyandamemberoftheJewishStudies ProgramFacultyattheUniversityofToronto.HeistheauthorofAllorNothing: Systematicity, Transcendental Arguments, and Skepticism in German Ideal- ism (2005) and articles on post-Kantian and Jewish philosophy; co-editor and co-translator(withMichaelL.Morgan)ofFranzRosenzweig:Philosophicaland TheologicalWritings(2000);andassociateeditorofTheInternationalYearbook ofGermanIdealism. PeterEliGordonisProfessorofHistoryatHarvardUniversity.Heistheauthor ofRosenzweigandHeidegger:BetweenJudaismandGermanPhilosophy(2003) andContinentalDivide:Heidegger,Cassirer,Davos(forthcoming). ix Cambridge Collections Online © Cambridge University Press, 2007