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



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Autore: Fagenblat Michael Visualizza persona
Titolo: A covenant of creatures : Levinas's philosophy of Judaism / / Michael Fagenblat Visualizza cluster
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  Visualizza cluster
ISBN: 0-8047-7468-4
Formato: Materiale a stampa
Livello bibliografico Monografia
Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
Record Nr.: 9910825907503321
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