Heidegger and Jewish Thought

Contents

Acknowledgments

Introduction

Part I: Heidegger Thinks the Jews

1 Beyond Apocalyptic Logos

2 Heidegger and Marx: A Phantasmatic Dialectic

3 Everyday Life, Hatred of Jews, and the Identitarian Movement: The Present-Day Heritage of Martin Heidegger

4 “Whitewashed with Moralism”: On Heidegger’s Anti-Americanism and Anti-Semitism

5 Being and the Jew: Between Heidegger and Levinas

Part II: Heidegger and Jewish Thinkers

6 Den Anderen Denken—Being, Time, and the Other in Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Heidegger

7 Groundlessness and Worldlessness: Heidegger’s Anti-Semitism and Jewish Thought

8 Heidegger’s Judenfrage

9 Heidegger as a Secularized Kierkegaard: Martin Buber and Hugo Bergmann Read Sein und Zeit

Part III: Heidegger and Jewish Thought

10 Heidegger’s Seyn/Nichts and the Kabbalistic Ein Sof: A Study in Comparative Metaontology

11 Fruits of Forgetfulness: Politics and Nationalism in the Philosophies of Martin Buber and Martin Heidegger

12 How Else Can One Think Earth? The Talmuds and Pre-Socratics

13 Of Dwelling Prophetically: On Heidegger and Jewish Political Theology

14 People of Knowers: On the Political Epistemology of Heidegger and R. Chaim of Volozhin

Bibliography

Index

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