Table of Contents

Foreword by Kenneth R. Seeskin Acknowledgements Introduction by Menachem Kellner 1. The Personal Messiah - Toward the Restoration of a Discarded Doctrine 2. Do Noachites Have to Believe in Revelation? (A Passage in Dsipute between Maimonides, Spinoza, Mendelssohn, and Hermann Cohen) A Contribution to a Jewish View of Natural Law 3. The Lure of Immanence - The Crisis in Contemporary Religious Thought 4. On the Theology of Jewish Survival 5. A Note on the Nature of Ideal Society - A Rabbinic Study 6. The Legal Foundation of Jewish Aesthetics 7. The Question of Jewish Ethics Today 8. Moral Radicalism and "Middlingness" in the Ethics of Maimonides 9. Jean-Paul Sartre as Jew 10. A Critique of Martin Buber's Political Philosophy - An Affectionate Reappraisal 11. On Jewish Eschatology 12. Modern Jewish Philosophy 13. Shekhinah and Eschatology Afterword Notes Bibliography of the Writings of Steven S. Schwarzschild Index

About the Author

Menachem Kellner is Professor in the Department of Jewish Thought at the University of Haifa in Israel.