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Record Nr.

UNINA9910823649103321

Autore

Batnitzky Leora Faye <1966->

Titolo

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : philosophy and the politics of revelation / / Leora Batnitzky

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Cambridge : , : Cambridge University Press, , 2006

ISBN

1-107-16820-1

1-280-48024-6

9786610480241

0-511-22053-7

0-511-22137-1

0-511-21943-1

0-511-30897-3

0-511-49905-1

0-511-22011-1

Edizione

[1st ed.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (xxii, 280 pages) : digital, PDF file(s)

Classificazione

08.25

Disciplina

181/.06

Soggetti

Jewish philosophy

Philosophy, Modern - 20th century

Political science - Philosophy

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015).

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-266) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem -- Levinas's defense of modern philosophy : how Strauss might respond -- "Freedom depends upon its bondage" : the shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig -- An irrationalist rationalism : Levinas's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- The possibility of premodern rationalism : Strauss's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- Against utopia : law and its limits -- Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics -- Politics and hermeneutics : Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources -- Revelation and commandment : Strauss, Levinas, and the theologico-political predicament.

Sommario/riassunto

Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose



reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, first published in 2006, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of 'religion', suggesting  ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.