This collection of essays by an internationally prominent group of scholars addresses themes central to the tradition of modern Jewish philosophy from the seventeenth through the twentieth centuries. Included are essays on Spinoza, Mendelssohn, Cohen, Buber, Rosenzweig, Fackenheim, Soloveitchik, Strauss, and Levinas. Contributors ix Acknowledgments xiii Chronology xvii Introduction: Modern Jewish Philosophy, Modern Philosophy, and Modern Judaism 1(13) Michael L. Morgan Peter Eli Gordon Baruch Spinoza and the Naturalization of Judaism 14(21) Steven Nadler The Liberalism of Moses Mendelssohn 35(18) Allan Arkush Jewish Philosophy after Kant: The Legacy of Salomon Maimon 53(27) Paul W. Franks Hermann Cohen: Judaism and Critical Idealism 80(22) Andrea Poma Self, Other, Text, God: The Dialogical Thought of Martin Buber 102(20) Tamra Wright Franz Rosenzweig and the Philosophy of Jewish Existence 122(25) Peter Eli Gordon Leo Strauss and Modern Jewish Thought 147(23) Steven B. Smith Messianism and Modern Jewish Philosophy 170(22) Pierre Bouretz Ethics, Authority, and Autonomy 192(17) Kenneth Seeskin Joseph Soloveitchik and Halakhic Man 209(25) Lawrence J. Kaplan Emmanuel Levinas: Judaism and the Primacy of the Ethical 234(22) Richard A. Cohen Emil Fackenheim, the Holocaust, and Philosophy 256(21) Michael L. Morgan Evil, Suffering, and the Holocaust 277(23) Berel Lang Revelation, Language, and Commentary: From Buber to Derrida 300(24) Leora Batnitzky Feminism and Modern Jewish Philosophy 324(25) Tamar Rudavsky Bibliography 349(16) Index 365