Witnesses for the future
Subtitle: philosophy and messianism
By: Pierre Bouretz ;  translated by Michael B. Smith.
Publisher: Johns Hopkins University Press
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Baltimore, Md
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9780801894503
Subjects: Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Jewish philosophy -- History -- 20th century; Messianism
Work titles: Témoins du futur.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and indexes.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: The Judaism of Hermann Cohen (1842-1918) : a religion of adults; title: From the night of the world to the blaze of redemption : the star of Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929); title: Walter Benjamin (1892-1940) : the angel of history and the experience of the century; title: Gershom Scholem (1897-1982) : the tradition, between knowledge and repair; title: Martin Buber (1878-1965) : humanism in the age of the death of God; title: Ernst Bloch (1885-1977) : a hermeneutics of waiting; title: The testament of Leo Dtrauss (1899-1973); title: Hans Jonas (1903-1994) : the experience of thought and responsibility toward the world; title: With Emmanuel Levinas (1905-1995) : history judged.