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Contents Foreword ix Preface xvii Introduction xxi 1. Socrates and Plato: Founders of Ethics 1 2. Maimonides: A Radical Platonist 23 3. The Good beyond Being: Ethico-Political Intricacies of a Medieval Debate 49 4. Religion as Idolatry: How (Not) to Know God 77 5. The “Unity of the Heart”: On Love and Longing (Where Ethical Method Fails) 107 6. Practice and Performance: How (Not) to Walk in Middle Ways 127 7. “He Is (Not) Like You”: How Suffering Commands Self or Soul 145 8. On Eudaemonian Eschatology and Holy History: Zionism as Betrayal of the Ideal 161 9. To Create Messianic Time: A Jewish Critique of Political Utopia 169 10. The Human Face: Anticipating a Future that Is Prior to the Past 179 Abbreviations 195 Notes 197 Bibliography 221 Index 245 ...