The discipline of philosophy and the invention of modern Jewish thought / Willi Goetschel.

Includes index.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 233-265) and index.

1 Introduction: Disciplining Philosophy and the Invention of Modern Jewish Thought 1 -- 2 Hellenes, Nazarenes, and Other Jews: Heine the Fool 21 -- 3 Jewish Philosophy? The Discourse of a Project 39 -- 4 Inside/Outside the University: Philosophy as Way and Problem in Cohen, Buber, and Rosenzweig 58 -- 5 A House of One's Own? University, Particularity, and the Jewish House of Learning 83 -- 6 Jewish Thought in the Wake of Auschwitz: Margarete Susman's The Book of Job and the Destiny of the Jewish People 97 -- 7 Contradiction Set Free: Hermann Levin Goldschmidt's Philosophy out of the Sources of Judaism 114 -- 8 Spinoza's Smart Worm and the Interplay of Ethics, Politics, and Interpretation 133 -- 9 Jewish Philosophers and the Enlightenment 150 -- 10 State, Sovereignty, and the Outside Within: Mendelssohn's View from the "Jewish Colony" 178 -- 11 Mendelssohn and the State 189 -- 12 "An Experiment of How Coincidence May Produce Unanimity of Thoughts": Enlightenment Trajectories in Kant and Mendelssohn 210.