Autonomy and Judaism

Daniel H. Frank is Associate Professor of Philosophy at the University of Kentucky.

"The book demonstrates the liveliness of modern Jewish philosophy, as well as its continuing engagement with a wide range of philosophical schools and methods: Kantian and neo-Kantian, Aristotelian and Maimonidean, Marx, Gadamer, and of course a wide range of biblical and classical rabbinic texts. The work is rich, suggestive and, on the whole, quite accessible." — Louis E. Newman, Carleton College

• Preface Introduction Part One: Fundamentals and First Principle s Autonomy and CommunityEugene B. Borowitz Autonomy and Jewish ThoughtKenneth Seeskin Tradition, Heritage, and Autonomy in Modern Jewish ThoughtZe'ev Levy Part Two: Historical and Contemporary Perspectives The Individual and the Community in the Normative Traditions of JudaismLenn E. Goodman The Elimination of Perplexity: Socrates and Maimonides as Guide of the PerplexedDaniel H. Frank Autonomy, Community, Authority: Hermann Cohen, Carl Schmitt, Leo StraussMartin D. Yaffe A Jewish Context for the Social Ethics of Marx and LevinasRobert Gibbs Individual and Communal ForgivenessElliot N. Dorff Contributors Subject Index Name Index