Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology

Contents

contents acknowledgments vii introduction \ randi rashkover and martin Kavka 1 Part 1. Judaism and Liberalism 1 spinoza and the Possibility condition of modern Judaism \ 37 Jerome e. copulsky 2 “Plato Prophesied the revelation”: 66 The Philosophico-Political Theology of strauss’s Philosophy and Law and the guidance of hermann cohen \ dana hollander 3 What do the dead deserve? toward a critique of 108 Jewish “Political Theology” \ martin Kavka 4 The Zionism of hannah arendt: 1941–1948 \ eric Jacobson 127 Part 2. Messianism, Miracle, and Power 5 Power and israel in martin buber’s critique of carl schmitt’s 155 Political Theology \ gregory Kaplan 6 The Political Theology of ethical monotheism \ daniel Weidner 178 7 The miraculous birth of the given: reflections on 197 hannah arendt and Franz rosenzweig \ daniel brandes Part 3. Ethics, Law, and the Universal 8 bad Jews, authentic Jews, Figural Jews: badiou and the Politics of 221 exemplarity \ sarah hammerschlag 9 The Patient Political gesture: Law, Liberalism, and talmud \ 241 Zachary braiterman Part 4. The Mosaic Distinction 10 reason within the bounds of religion: assmann, cohen, and the 269 Possibilities of monotheism \ robert erlewine 11 The impossibility of the Prohibition of images: 289 idolatry in adorno, Levinas, and schoenberg \ oona eisenstadt 12 From distortion to displacement: 305 Freud and the mosaic distinction \ brian britt 13 monotheism as a Political Problem: 321 The critique of Political Theology out of the sources of Judaism \ bruce rosenstock contributors 345 index 349 ...