The Eclipse of Humanity

Abraham Heschel believed that the Holocaust was an “Eclipse of Humanity.” In its philosophical and historical context, Heschel saw this eclipse as embedded in the phenomenological approach of Heidegger. Focusing on their respective phenomenological methods, Heschel’s view of Adam and Heidegger’s notion of Dasein, this book is an analysis of Heschel’s critique of Heidegger and the postmodernism that followers of Heidegger espoused.