Ethics, exegesis, and philosophy : interpretation after Levinas

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Ethics, exegesis, and philosophy : interpretation after Levinas

Richard A. Cohen

Cambridge University Press, 2001

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The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.

Table of Contents

  • Introduction: philosophy as ethical exegesis
  • Part I. Exceeding Phenomenology: 1. Bergson and the emergence of an ecological age
  • 2. Science: phenomenology, intuition and philosophy
  • 3. The good work of Edmund Husserl
  • 4. Better than a questionable Heidegger
  • Part II. Good and Evil: 5. Alterity and alteration: development of an opus
  • 6. Maternal body/maternal psyche: contra psychoanalytic philosophy
  • 7. Humanism and the rights of exegesis
  • 8. What good is the Holocaust? On suffering and evil
  • 9. Ricoeur and the lure of self-esteem
  • 10. In conclusion
  • Index.

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