Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy

Half-title......Page 2
Title......Page 4
Copyright......Page 5
Dedication......Page 6
Contents......Page 8
Acknowledgments......Page 10
Abbreviations......Page 12
Introduction......Page 16
the thesis and two corollaries......Page 20
a preliminary sketch of the argument......Page 23
a note on gender......Page 31
1 The Meontological Conundrum......Page 33
critical meontology: emmanuel levinas......Page 35
dialectical meontology: emil fackenheim......Page 44
2 Beyond “Beyond Being”......Page 57
the problems of middle platonism......Page 61
the inadequacy of unifaceted definition......Page 64
nonbeing, otherness, and the coherence of disparate elements......Page 68
phenomenology and meontology......Page 73
3 Nonbeing as Not-Yet-Being......Page 81
return......Page 82
maimonidean meontology......Page 85
the extirpation of the passions in maimonides......Page 99
meontology in cohen’s logik der reinen erkenntnis......Page 109
from teleology to messianism: cohen’s interpretation of maimonides......Page 121
the integration of the community: religion of reason......Page 129
conclusion......Page 141
4 Nonbeing Ensouled, Nonbeing Embodied......Page 144
the soul, faithful in pathos......Page 150
the body, faithful in eros......Page 172
Conclusion......Page 208
mourning between introjection and incorporation......Page 213
the mourners of zion, hadomim lo......Page 222
swallowing tears......Page 232
Works Cited......Page 237
Index......Page 248