Cover; Title; Copyright; Contents; Acknowledgments; Introduction; Part 1. Judaism and Liberalism; 1 Spinoza and the Possibility Condition of Modern Judaism; 2 ""Plato Prophesied the Revelation"": The Philosophico-Political Theology of Strauss's Philosophy and Law and the Guidance of Hermann Cohen; 3 What Do the Dead Deserve? Toward a Critique of Jewish ""Political Theology""; 4 The Zionism of Hannah Arendt: 1941-1948; Part 2. Messianism, Miracle, and Power; 5 Power and Israel in Martin Buber's Critique of Carl Schmitt's Political Theology; 6 The Political Theology of Ethical Monotheism.

7 The Miraculous Birth of the Given: Reflections on Hannah Arendt and Franz RosenzweigPart 3. Ethics, Law, and The Universal; 8 Bad Jews, Authentic Jews, Figural Jews: Badiou and the Politics of Exemplarity; 9 The Patient Political Gesture: Law, Liberalism, and Talmud; Part 4. The Mosaic Distinction; 10 Reason within the Bounds of Religion: Assmann, Cohen, and the Possibilities of Monotheism; 11 The Impossibility of the Prohibition of Images: Idolatry in Adorno, Levinas, and Schoenberg; 12 From Distortion to Displacement: Freud and the Mosaic Distinction.

13 Monotheism as a Political Problem: The Critique of Political Theology out of the Sources of JudaismContributors; Index; A; B; C; D; E; F; G; H; I; J; K; L; M; N; O; P; R; S; T; U; V; W; X; Y; Z.

Judaism, Liberalism, and Political Theology provides the first broad encounter between modern Jewish thought and recent developments in political theology. In opposition to impetuous associations of Judaism and liberalism and charges that Judaism cannot engender a universal political order, the essays in this volume propose a new and richly detailed engagement between Judaism and the political. The vexed status of liberalism in Jewish thought and Judaism in political theology is interrogated with recourse to thinking from across the Continental tradition.

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