03017nam 2200601Ia 450 991082590750332120200520144314.00-8047-7468-410.1515/9780804774680(CKB)2670000000029589(EBL)547312(OCoLC)646068282(SSID)ssj0000415052(PQKBManifestationID)12190411(PQKBTitleCode)TC0000415052(PQKBWorkID)10409519(PQKB)10166003(DE-B1597)563683(DE-B1597)9780804774680(MiAaPQ)EBC547312(OCoLC)1178769361(EXLCZ)99267000000002958920100107d2010 uy 0engur|n#---|u||utxtccrA covenant of creatures Levinas's philosophy of Judaism /Michael FagenblatStanford, Calif. Stanford University Press20101 online resource (319 p.)Cultural memory in the presentDescription based upon print version of record.0-8047-6869-2 Includes bibliographical references and index.Front matter --Contents --Preface: Judaism as a Philosophical Way of Life --1. Levinas’s New Creation --2. From Chaos to Creation --3. Ethics in the Image of God --Interlude: From Moral Creators to Ethical Creatures: Levinas’s Kehre --4. Ethical Negative Theology --5. Secularizing the Covenant --6. The Ambivalence of Fraternity --Conclusion --Notes --Bibliography --Index"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 through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.Cultural memory in the present.Ethics, ModernJudaismPhilosophyPhilosophy, French20th centuryEthics, Modern.JudaismPhilosophy.Philosophy, French194Fagenblat Michael1130859MiAaPQMiAaPQMiAaPQBOOK9910825907503321A Covenant of Creatures4033742UNINA