Jürgen Habermas recalls philosophers and sociologists of Jewish background as returnees in the early Federal Republic Of Germany

As his 10th yahrzeit nears, a remembrance of Sidney the teacher, Sidney the humorist, Sidney the arguer, Sidney the Jew

Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig was set to convert to Christianity a century ago. Yom Kippur services changed his mind.

The philosopher’s influential legacy is reshaped by the part of his life story that is often overlooked

A new book on ‘antiphilosophy’ revives interest in Lev Shestov, a seminal but largely forgotten thinker

Albert Camus, who died an atheist at 46, had surprisingly deep ties to Judaism in his life, his political activity, and his philosophical thought

Reflections on a former professor and his posthumous fiction debut

In a new memoir, philosopher Stanley Cavell reflects on what it means to be alone

Two authors contrast the outlooks of their subjects

A new biography takes a look at Derrida’s philosophy of disillusionment

Hobbes classic gets its first full Hebrew translation

What the Wittgenstein family gained and lost

Benjamin, Scholem, Rosenzweig and the Angel of History

A new book probes Augustine’s vexing ‘defense’ of Judaism

A new volume of Hannah Arendt’s writing sheds light on the persistence of anti-Semitism