Levinas and the Torah: a phenomenological approach

by Sugarman, Richard Ira

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Full title :Levinas and the Torah : a phenomenological approach / Richard I. Sugarman.

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"The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas's religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach, drawing on both Levinas's philosophical and Jewish writings. Sugarman puts Levinas in conversation with biblical commentators classical and modern, including Rashi, Maimonides, Sforno, Hirsch, and Soloveitchik. He particularly highlights Levinas's work on the Talmud and the Holocaust. Levinas's reading is situated against the background of a renewed understanding of such phenomena as covenant, promise, different modalities of time, and justice. The volume is organized to reflect the fifty-four portions of the Torah read during the Jewish liturgical year. A preface provides an overview of Levinas's life, approach, and place in contemporary Jewish thought. The reader emerges with a deeper understanding of both the Torah and the philosophy of a key Jewish thinker"--

Edition Statements

Publication Date:©2019

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):State University of New York
Place of Publication:Albany
Language:eng
Publication Date:©2019

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781438475745, 1438475748
oclc:on1114334753
LC Classification:BS1225.52
Dewey Decimal:222/.106092

Intro; Contents; Preface; Encountering Levinas; A Brief Biography of Emmanuel Levinas; Levinas's Philosophical Works; The Importance of Levinas to Contemporary Jewish Thought; The Burden of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought: The Radicalizing of Levinas's Philosophical Thinking on the Holocaust; Levinas's Phenomenological Approach; Acknowledgments; Note to the Reader; The Jewish Bible; Torah and Interpretation; The Order of the Book; New Word Concepts Advanced by Levinas; On Transliteration from Hebrew to English; Key to Abbreviations of Works by Levinas; Genesis Bereishis; On Genesis

Facing Responsibility (Beresheis: In the Beginning)The Love of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Love (Noach: Noah); The Meta-Covenant; Humanism without Transcendence; A New Paradigm for the Human Subject: The Other before the Self (Lech Lecha: Go Out of Yourself); Covenant; On Justice and Its Surplus (Vayeira: The Lord Appeared); Moral Reasoning: Explanation and Justice; The Binding of Isaac: The Yours (Akedah: Binding); The Death of the Other (Chayei Sarah: The Life of Sarah); Continuity and Discontinuity; Generational Responsibility (Toldos: Generations); Rebecca's Fourfold Responsibility

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Bible., Pentateuch Bible., Pentateuque Criticism, interpretation, etc Electronic books Jewish philosophy Jewish philosophy -- 20th century Lévinas, Emmanuel Philosophie juive -- 20e siècle