A covenant of creatures : Levinas's philosophy of Judaism / / Michael Fagenblat

• Autore: Fagenblat Michael
• Pubblicazione: Stanford, Calif., : Stanford University Press, 2010
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (319 p.)
• Disciplina: 194
• Soggetto topico: Ethics, Modern; Judaism - Philosophy; Philosophy, French - 20th century
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 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
• Sommario/riassunto: "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.
• Titolo autorizzato: A Covenant of Creatures
• ISBN: 0-8047-7468-4
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910825907503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Cultural memory in the present.