03157cam a2200481Ma 4500 ocn794619903 OCoLC 20200709055551.0 m d cr cn|---||a|| 110920t20112011onc ob 001 0deng d CELBN eng CELBN OCLCQ E7B N$T 9781442695382 (electronic bk.) 1442695382 (electronic bk.) (OCoLC)794619903 468986 (N$T) BL51 .P67 2011eb REL 051000 bisacsh 210 23 N$TA Portnoff, Sharon. Reason and revelation before historicism [electronic resource] : Strauss and Fackenheim / Sharon Portnoff. Toronto [Ont.] : University of Toronto Press, c2011 (Saint-Lazare, Quebec : Canadian Electronic Library, 2012) 1 online resource (ix, 395 p.) Includes bibliographical references (p. [355]-367) and index. Background and introduction -- Strauss's formulation of the relationship between reason and revelation in modern thought and his rejection of a practical synthesis -- Fackenheim's formulation of the relationship between philosophy and revelatory theology in modern thought -- The problem of historicism -- Reason and revelation : Jewish thought after Strauss and Fackenheim. "Can contemporary religion, and particularly Judaism, exist without being informed by history? This question was debated in 1940s New York by two German refugees who later rose to prominence -- Leo Strauss, one of the twentieth century's most significant political philosophers, and Emil L. Fackenheim, an important post-Holocaust Jewish theologian. There has been little consensus, however, on the definitive meaning of their work. Reason and Revelation before Historicism, the first full-length comparison of Strauss and Fackenheim, places the informal teacher and student in conversation alongside sections of their analyses of notable thinkers. Sharon Portnoff suggests that both saw historicism as the nexus of the intersection and tension between philosophy and religion and raised the possibility of the persistence of the permanent in the modern world. Portnoff illuminates our understanding of Strauss's relationship with Judaism, Fackenheim's oft-overshadowed great philosophical depth, and the function and character of Jewish thought in a secular, post-Holocaust world."--Publisher's website. Strauss, Leo. Fackenheim, Emil L., 1916- Philosophy and religion. Historicism. Judaism and philosophy. Philosophy, Modern. Revelation. RELIGION / Philosophy bisacsh Electronic books. EBSCOhost http://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&db=nlabk&AN=468986 Cover image: http://celarc.ca/covers/438/438848.jpg Canadian Electronic Library CELB 10560444 ebrary EBRY ebr10560444 cpp1723AUTO 02 N$T 51480 51480