Table of Contents

Translator's Note
Introduction
1. The Judaism of Hermann Cohen (1842– 1918): A Religion of Adults
2. From the Night of the World to the Blaze of Redemption: The Star of Franz Rosenzweig (1886– 1929)
3. Walter Benjamin (1892– 1940): The Angel of History and the Experience of the Century
4. Gershom Scholem (1897– 1982): The Tradition Between Knowledge and Repair
5. Martin Buber (1878– 1965): Humanism in the Age of the Death of God
6. Ernst Bloch (1885– 1977): A Hermeneutics of Waiting
7. The Legacy of Leo Strauss (1899– 1973)
8. Hans Jonas (1903– 1994): The Experience of Thinking and Responsibility Toward the World
9. With Emmanuel Levinas (1906– 1995): History Judged
Notes
Index of Ideas
Index of References
Index of Names

About the Author

Pierre Bouretz is the director of studies at the Ecole des hautes etudes en sciences sociales in France, was coeditor of the journal Esprit, and is author of Les Promesses du Monde: Philosophie de Max Weber.

Reviews

Not often does a book alter the intellectual landscape. But Pierre Bouretz's study of twentieth-century Messianic philosophy, of the interactions between Jewish and German religious, metaphysical, and social thought... does precisely that. Times Literary Supplement This well-researched and extensively annotated tome explores the thinking of nine late-19th and 20th-century, European educated, Jewish intellectuals (Hermann Cohen, Franz Rosenzweig, Walter Benjamin, Gershom Scholem, Martin Buber, Ernst Bloch, Leo Strauss, Hans Jonas, and Emmanuel Levinas) whose writings exerted tremendous influence on modern Jewish thought. Choice