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SPRING 2008 CATALOG

Emil L. Fackenheim
A Jewish Philosopher’s Response to the Holocaust

 
David Patterson

Cloth $39.95L    |    978-0-8156-3156-9    |    2008

Paper $19.95s    |    978-0-8156-3183-5    |    2008


2008 National Jewish Book Award winner for the Modern Jewish Thought and Experience Dorot Foundation Award. The winners of the 2008 National Jewish Book Awards will be honored on March 5th, 2009 at a gala award ceremony to be held at the Center for Jewish History in Manhattan, located at 15 West 16th Street. The awards ceremony, which begins at 7:30 p.m., is free and open to the public.

Description
Emil Fackenheim was the last in a long line of Jewish philosophers to emerge from Germany, the modern center of Western philosophy, following Moses Mendelssohn, Leo Baeck, and Martin Buber. In this revealing book, David Patterson explores Fackenheim’s rigorous pursuit of a philosophical response to the tragedy of the Holocaust. Fackenheim’s writing sheds light on the tensions between Jewish thinking and German philosophy, illustrating how elements of the latter were used by the Nazis to justify Jewish annihilation. In addition, he emphasizes the important implications of defining Jewish philosophy as its own entity, separate from the tenets of the Jewish cultural tradition.

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Author
David Patterson is the Bornblum Chair of Judaic Studies at the University of Memphis. He has published numerous books and articles on Jewish culture and religion, including Sun Turned to Darkness, also published by Syracuse University Press.

6 x 9, 240 pages, bibliography, index


Emil L. Fackenheim

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