Front Matter -- Half Title Page -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- FOREWORD -- PREFACE -- Content -- PART ONE S0REN KIERKEGAARD -- THE DEVELOPMENT OF PHILOSOPHY -- Descartes, Leibnitz, Kant -- Fichte and Hegel -- Kierkegaard and Hegel -- Romanticism and the Cult of Genius -- Kierkegaard's Life -- THE CONCEPT OF IRONY IN KIERKEGAARD'S THOUGHT -- The Trial of Socrates -- Socrates According to Aristophanes -- The Character of the Ironist -- Irony and Romanticism -- The Religious Stage -- Ironist as Teacher -- Objective versus Existential Truth -- KIERKEGAARD'S PSEUDONYMOUSWRITINGS -- Either/Or -- Boredom -- Three Representatives of the Aesthetic Life -- The Eternal and the Temporal in Man -- In Praise of Marriage -- The Choice of Despair -- Man's Duty to Be Himself -- The Relation between the Moral and the Religious -- The Rejection of Mysticism -- Euphoric Non-Vindication -- Fear and Trembling -- The Sacrifice of Isaac -- Resignation and Repetition -- Morality and the Sacrifice of Isaac -- The Absolute Duty to God -- Incidents of Moral Suspension in the Bibl -- The Book of Job-The True Book of Repetition -- The *Individual' in Hegel and Kierkegaard -- The Individual as a Religious Category -- Philosophy and Faith -- The Intrusion of Eternity into Time -- Learning is Remembering -- Learning and Revelation -- Revelation and Love -- Paradox and Faith -- The Risk of Faith -- Postscript -- Objective Christianity as Idolatry -- The Invisible Church -- The 'Leap' to Faith -- The Difficulty of Subjectivity -- Existential Tension -- Existential Pathos and Suffering -- Suffering and Humor -- Suffering and the Consciousness of Guilt -- PART TWO TRANSITION -- TRANSITIONAL THINKERS FROM FEUERBACH TO ROSENSTOCK -- Ferdinand Ebner: Reciprocity and Spirituality -- Self-Isolation-A Betrayal of God -- Eugen Rosenstock -- Thought and Speech.

Three Levels of Language -- The Error of Psychology -- Feuerbach and Stirner -- First Principle in the Philosophy of Hermann Cohen -- From Idealism to Dialogue -- PART THREE FRANZ ROSENZWEIG -- FRANZ ROSENZWEIG: AN OVERVIEW -- Metaethics, Metalogic, and Metaphysics -- Unity and Triad: A Starting Point -- Sick and Healthy Reason -- Three Stages in the Cure of 'Paralysis' -- God and His Name -- Critical Remarks -- THE STAR OF REDEMPTION -- Being and Fortitude in God -- Law and Particularity in the World -- Character and Will in Man -- The Protocosmos and the Revealed World -- Philosophy and Theology -- Revelation or The World in Time -- Love of God and Love of Neighbor -- The Law of the Reversibility of Arch-Words -- The Evolution of Redemption -- Judaism and Christianity -- PART FOUR: THE DIALOGICAL PHILOSOPHYOF MARTIN BUBER -- THE ORIGIN OF I-THOU:THE MYSTICAL PERIOD -- The Imbalance of Realization and Orientation -- Polarity and Unity -- The World of I and the World of It -- Life with Nature -- Life with Man -- Life with the Spiritual -- Man's World -- Man and God-The Eternal Thou -- Back Matter -- NOTES -- Index.