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Emmanuel Levinas: Essays on Phenomenology, Hermeneutics, and Jewish Thought (Supplements to the Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy, 40)
by: Bettina Bergo (Author)
Publisher: Brill Academic Pub
Publication Date: 2025-04-03
Language: English
Print Length: 326 pages
ISBN-10: 9004701109
ISBN-13: 9789004701106
Book Description
The overarching argument of this book is that we must read Levinas in his context. Levinas’s complete context consists of four intersecting dimensions: phenomenology, hermeneutics, Bible, and Talmudic interpretation and debates. Only when we read him this way do we understand the originality of his philosophical contribution, and why it is indispensable to us in a secular time disabused of politics and striving to justify ethics.
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The overarching argument of this book is that we must read Levinas in his context. Levinas’s complete context consists of four intersecting dimensions: phenomenology, hermeneutics, Bible, and Talmudic interpretation and debates. Only when we read him this way do we understand the originality of his philosophical contribution, and why it is indispensable to us in a secular time disabused of politics and striving to justify ethics.
