This volume aspires to keep in memory the memory of an incalculable loss, which was a catastrophe for the intellectual history of Jewish thought.

Faced with catastrophe, it deals both with the destruction of Europe during the so-called "European Civil War" (1914-1945) and with the Shoah and, in this context, with the extraordinary generation of European thinkers of Jewish origin that emerged at the end of the 19th century and that began to bear fruit in the first decades of the 20th. Likewise, the purpose of this book is to offer a sufficiently representative sample of them to give an approach and introduction to some "highlights" of contemporary Jewish thought.

Thanks to the magnificent work of those who collaborate in this work, an attempt has been made to account for and account for the various trends and directions that these thinkers followed: phenomenology, sociology and philosophical anthropology, psychoanalysis, neo-Kantianism, the so-called Western Marxism , legal-political thought and political philosophy, as well as Jewish philosophy sensu stricto.