Cover -- Table of Contents -- Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Part I - Politics and Hermeneutics in the Philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- Tolerance, Liberty and Equality -- Spinoza's and Maimonides' Esoteric Writings -- Part II - Philosophical Hermeneutics -- Biblical Hermeneutics: J. G. Herder and J. W. von Goethe -- Hermeneutics and Demythologization: Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and Tradition -- PART III -- Part III - Ethics and Contemporary Jewish Thought -- Death, Dying, Body, and Soul -- Does It Make Sense to Speak about Jewish Ethics? -- PART IV -- Part IV - Lévinas: Politics and Contemporary Jewish Thought -- Lévinas on State, Revolution and Utopia -- Lévinas on Secularization -- Lévinas on Death and Hope -- Bibliography -- Index -- Index.