Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas.
Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas.
"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works …
Levinas's new creation : a philosophy of Judaism, without and or between -- From chaos to creation : the genesis of ethics -- Ethics in the image of God : anthropology ex nihilo -- Interlude : from moral creators to ethical creatures : Levinas's kehre -- Ethical negative theolog…
This text argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that 'totality and infinity and otherwise than being' separate philosophy from Judaism. Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called 'ethics' is as much a hermeneutical product as a series of phenomenological observati…
Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas.
"This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to those espoused…
This volume examines the relevance of Emmanuel Levinas's work to recent developments in analytic philosophy. Contemporary analytic philosophers working in metaethics, the philosophy of mind, and the metaphysic of personal identity have argued for views similar to those espoused …