Elevations : the height of the good in Rosenzweig and Levinas
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Elevations : the height of the good in Rosenzweig and Levinas
(Chicago studies in the history of Judaism)
University of Chicago Press, c1994
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Bibliography: p. 323-326
Includes index
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ISBN 9780226112749
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This text provides a series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuael Levinas, two of the 20th century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of transcendence, Richard Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas join the wisdom of revealed religions to the work of traditional philosophers to create a philosophy charged with the tasks of ethics and justice. He describes how they articulated a responsible humanism and a new enlightenment which would place moral obligation to the other above all other human concerns. This elevating pull of an ethics that can account for the relation of self and other without reducing either term is the central theme of these essays. Cohen also explores the ethical philosophy of these two thinkers in relation to Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Buber, Sartre and Derrida.
Table of Contents
Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1: Jewish Election in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig 2: Authentic Self and History: An Alternative to Heidegger 3: Rosenzweig versus Nietzsche 4: Rosenzweig contra Buber: Personal Pronouns 5: Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher and Jew 6: On Temporality and Time 7: Non-in-difference 8: G-d in Levinas: The Justification of Justice and Philosophy 9: The Metaphysics of Gender 10: Levinas, Rosenzweig, and the Phenomenologies of Husserl and Heidegger 11: The Face of Truth and Jewish Mysticism 12: Absolute Positivity and Ultrapositivity: Beyond Husserl 13: On the Suffering of Meaning: Levinas "Outside" Heidegger's "Threshold" through Rosenzweig's "Gate" 14: Derrida's (Mal)reading of Levinas Bibliography Index
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: pbk ISBN 9780226112756
Description
This text provides a series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas, two of the 20th century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of transcendence, Richard Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas join the wisdom of revealed religions to the work of traditional philosophers to create a philosophy charged with the tasks of ethics and justice. He describes how they articulated a responsible humanism and a new enlightenment which would place moral obligation to the other above all other human concerns. This elevating pull of an ethics that can account for the relation of self and other without reducing either term is the central theme of these essays. Cohen also explores the ethical philosophy of these two thinkers in relation to Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Buber, Sartre and Derrida.
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