Acknowledgments 11
Introduction 13
I. Prologue
1. The Study of the Jewish Intellectual: A Methodological
Prolegomenon 23
2. Jewish Continuity in an Age of Discontinuity: Reflections from
the Perspective of Intellectual History 54
II. Between Ambivalent Borders
3. The Throes of Assimilation: Self-Hatred and the Jewish
Revolutionary 67
4. Fin de Siecle Orientalism, The Ostjuden, and the Aesthetics of
Jewish Self-Affirmation 77
5. Ambivalent Dialogue: Jewish-Christian Theological Encounter
in the Weimar Republic 133
6. Realpolitik or Ethical Nationalism? 168
III. On the Bivalent Way
7. Nationalism as a Spiritual Sensibility: The Philosophical
Suppositions of Buber's Hebrew Humanism 181
8. The Politics of Covenantal Responsibility: Martin Buber and
Hebrew Humanism 194
9. Martin Buber and the Metaphysicians of Contempt 207
10. Martin Buber's Conception of God 237
11. Rosenzweig and Kant: Two Views of Ritual and Religion 283
12. Franz Rosenzweig and the Crisis of Historicism 311
IV. At the Multivalent Crossroads
13. Law and Sacrament: Ritual Observance in Twentieth-Century
Jewish Thought 341
14. "To Brush History against the Grain" : The Eschatology of the
Frankfurt School and Ernst Bloch 370
15. The Appeal of the Incorrigible Idealist: Judah L. Magnes and
the Mandarins of Jerusalem 390
V. Epilogue
16. The Jew as Cosmopolitan 413
17. Between Existentialism and Zionism: A Non-Philippic Credo 424
Index 435
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