Jewish messianism and the history of philosophy /
Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy contests the ancient opposition between Athens and Jerusalem by retrieving the concept of meontology - the doctrine of nonbeing - from the Jewish philosophical and theological tradition. For Emmanuel Levinas, as well as for Franz Rosenzweig, Hermann Co...
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Cambridge University Press,
2004.
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Table of Contents:
- Introduction: From Athens to Jerusalem
- The Thesis and Two Corollaries
- A Preliminary Sketch of the Argument
- A Note on Gender
- The Meontological Conundrum: Emmanuel Levinas and Emil Fackenheim on the Athens-Jerusalem Conflict
- Critical Meontology: Emmanuel Levinas
- Dialectical Meontology: Emil Fackenheim
- Beyond "Beyond Being": Nonbeing in Plato and Husserl
- The Problems of Middle Platonism
- The Inadequacy of Unifaceted Definition
- Nonbeing, Otherness, and the Coherence of Disparate Elements
- Phenomenology and Meontology
- Nonbeing as Not-Yet-Being: Meontology in Maimonides and Hermann Cohen
- Return
- Maimonidean Meontology
- The Extirpation of the Passions in Maimonides
- Meontology in Cohen's Logik der reinen Erkenntnis
- From Teleology to Messianism: Cohen's Interpretation of Maimonides
- The Integration of the Community: Religion of Reason
- Nonbeing Ensouled, Nonbeing Embodied: Levinas versus Rosenzweig on the Role of the Other in Messianic Anticipation
- The Soul, Faithful in Pathos
- The Body, Faithful in Eros
- Conclusion: Deepening the Roots of the Jewish Meontological Tradition, or contra the Derridean "Messianic"
- Mourning Between Introjection and Incorporation
- The Mourners of Zion, hadomim lo
- Swallowing Tears.
