Levinas And The Torah

Author : Richard I. Sugarman
Publisher : SUNY Press
Page : 428 pages
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Release : 2019-09-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9781438475738

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Levinas and the Torah by Richard I. Sugarman Pdf

A Levinasian commentary on the Torah. The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906–95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas’s religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach, drawing on both Levinas’s philosophical and Jewish writings. Sugarman puts Levinas in conversation with biblical commentators both classical and modern, including Rashi, Maimonides, Sforno, Hirsch, and Soloveitchik. He particularly highlights Levinas’s work on the Talmud and the Holocaust. Levinas’s reading is situated against the background of a renewed understanding of such phenomena as covenant, promise, different modalities of time, and justice. The volume is organized to reflect the fifty-four portions of the Torah read during the Jewish liturgical year. A preface provides an overview of Levinas’s life, approach, and place in contemporary Jewish thought. The reader emerges with a deeper understanding of both the Torah and the philosophy of a key Jewish thinker. “Sugarman rightly treats Levinas as a thoroughly Jewish religious thinker, an approach to the great thinker that is much needed. Taking such an approach, he opens up new, innovative horizons in Torah commentary and analysis. Through a perceptive reading of Levinas through the biblical lens, he offers an insightful illumination of both the Bible and Levinas. Some may not be sure what to make of Sugarman’s work here, but then that is how it always is with innovative approaches.” — David Patterson, author of The Holocaust and the Nonrepresentable: Literary and Photographic Transcendence

Author : Hannah Hashkes
Publisher : BRILL
Page : 294 pages
File Size : 41,7 Mb
Release : 2015-03-10
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9789004290488

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Rabbinic Discourse as a System of Knowledge by Hannah Hashkes Pdf

In Rabbinic Discourse as a System of Knowledge Hannah Hashkes employs contemporary philosophy in describing rabbinic reasoning as a rational response to experience. Hashkes combines insights from the philosophy of Quine and Davidson with the semiotics of Peirce to construe knowledge as systematic reasoning occurring within a community of inquiry. Her reading of the works of Emmanuel Levinas and Jean-Luc Marion allows her to create a philosophical bridge between a discourse of God and a discourse of reason. This synthesis of pragmatism, hermeneutics and theology provides Hashkes with a sophisticated tool to understand Rabbinic Judaism. It also makes this study both unique and pathbreaking in contemporary Jewish philosophy and Rabbinic thought.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 273 pages
File Size : 53,9 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253040503

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Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Author : Zeev Levy
Publisher : Peter Lang
Page : 202 pages
File Size : 51,6 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 1433106973

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From Spinoza to Lévinas by Zeev Levy Pdf

Pt. I. Politics and hermeneutics in the philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- Tolerance, liberty and equality -- Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writings -- Pt. II. Philosophical hermeneutics -- Biblical hermeneutics : J.G. Herder and J.W. von Goethe -- Hermeneutics and demythologization : Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and tradition -- Pt. III. Ethics and contemporary Jewish thought -- Death, dying, body, and soul -- Does it make sense to speak about Jewish ethics? -- Pt. IV. Lévinas, politics, and contemporary Jewish thought -- Lévinas on state, revolution, and utopia -- Lévinas on secularization -- Lévinas on death and hope.

Author : Frans Jozef van Beeck
Publisher : Loyola Press
Page : 136 pages
File Size : 46,6 Mb
Release : 1989
Category : Religion
ISBN : STANFORD:36105041040994

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Loving the Torah More Than God? by Frans Jozef van Beeck Pdf

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 364 pages
File Size : 55,8 Mb
Release : 2019-05-16
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780253040527

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Nine Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

Nine rich and masterful readings of the Talmud by the French Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. Between 1963 and 1975, Levinas delivered these commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Author : John Llewelyn
Publisher : Indiana University Press
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2002-01-10
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 0253214939

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Appositions of Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas by John Llewelyn Pdf

"This is a book of scintillating intelligence, a book whose range of references, whose extraordinary ethical sensibility and linguistic creativity, set a standard for philosophy that few if any contemporary thinkers other than Derrida and Levinas themselves can match.... On every page, there is Llewelean sparkle." --David Wood If not simple opposition or simple juxtaposition, what is the relation between the writings to which Derrida and Levinas appose their signatures? What would each endorse in the writings of the other? What is it to sign and endorse? How does one assume responsibility, and how does one avoid assuming it? These are some of the probing questions that the prominent Continental philosopher John Llewelyn takes up in Appositions, which brings together and synthesizes 15 essays written during the past 20 years. This book by a powerfully original thinker and first-rate interpreter is essential reading for all those interested in the writings of Derrida and Levinas and in the ways in which their thinking intersects.

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 232 pages
File Size : 53,5 Mb
Release : 1994
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015032192018

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In the Time of the Nations by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

The 'nations' of the title are the 'seventy nations': in the Talmudic idiom, the whole of humanity surrounding Israel. In this major collection of essays, Levinas considers Judaism's uncertain relationship to European culture since the Enlightenment, problems of distance and integration. It also includes five Talmudic readings from between 1981 and 1986, essays on Franz Rosenzweig and Moses Mendelssohn, and a discussion with Francoise Armengaud which raises questions of central importance to Jewish philosophy in the context of general philosophy. This work brings to the fore the vital encounter between philosophy and Judaism, a hallmark of Levinas's thought."

Author : Emmanuel Lévinas
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 152 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 1999
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015042989494

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New Talmudic Readings by Emmanuel Lévinas Pdf

This volume contains three of Emmanuel Levinas's last major lectures on the Talmud. Originally compiled and published in French in 1996, it includes the lectures, The Will of Heaven and the Power of Humanity, Beyond the State in the Self, and Who is One-self?. Levinas's Talmudic commentaries have generated interest in both theological and philosophical circles. These exegetical writings bear on his ever-present concern with ethics, the central focus of his philosophy. One of the most remarkable consequences of this focus, furthermore, is a renewal of philosophy's capacity to both respect and uncover the deepest meanings central to sacred as well as secular texts.

Author : E. Wyschogrod
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 231 pages
File Size : 47,5 Mb
Release : 2012-12-06
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9789401020442

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Emmanuel Levinas by E. Wyschogrod Pdf

Emmanuel Levinas recounts the main events of his life in a brief essay, "Signature," appended to a collection of essays on social, political and religious themes entitled Dillicile Uberti. He was born in I905 in Lithu ania and in I9I7, while living in the Ukraine, experienced the collapse of the old regime in Russia. In I923 he came to the University of Strasbourg where Charles Blondel, Halbwachs, Pradines, Carteron and later Gueroult were teaching. He was deeply influenced by those of his teachers who had been adolescents during the time of the Dreyfus affair and for whom this issue assumed critical importance. Continuing his studies at Freiburg from I928-I929, he served an apprenticeship in phenomenology with Jean Hering. Subsequent encounters with Leon Brunschwicg and regular conversations with Gabriel Marcel served to distinguish, to sharpen and bring into the foreground, his own unique point of view. He also attests a long friendship with Jean Wahl. To gether with Henri Nerson he undertook a study of Talmudic sources under the guidance of a teacher who communicated the traditional Jewish mode of exegesis. It is no accident that Levinas begins his autobiographical account, which is indeed no more than a spare outline of events and formative influences, with the information that the Hebrew Bible directed his thinking from the time of his earliest child hood in Lithuania.

Author : Emmanuel Levinas
Publisher : A&C Black
Page : 248 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 1994-01-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 0485114305

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Beyond the Verse by Emmanuel Levinas Pdf

Available in paperback for the first time, this is an important collection of essays dealing with problems in Jewish thought.

Author : Joelle Hansel
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 214 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2008-10-14
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9781402062483

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Levinas in Jerusalem: Phenomenology, Ethics, Politics, Aesthetics by Joelle Hansel Pdf

This book is a collection of papers given at the International Conference "Levinas in Jerusalem" held at the Hebrew University in May 2002. It gives an overview of the most fecund areas of research in Levinas scholarship. The authors, world renowned scholars and young promising ones, investigate Levinas’s relationship to Bergson, Husserl and Heidegger; his conception of Justice and the State; and his view of Aesthetics, Eros and the Feminine.

Author : Michael Fagenblat
Publisher : Stanford University Press
Page : 320 pages
File Size : 54,5 Mb
Release : 2010-06-03
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : 9780804774680

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A Covenant of Creatures by Michael Fagenblat Pdf

"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.

Author : Adam Zachary Newton
Publisher : State University of New York Press
Page : 287 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2012-02-01
Category : Religion
ISBN : 9780791491447

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The Fence and the Neighbor by Adam Zachary Newton Pdf

The Fence and the Neighbor traces the contours of two thinkers, Emmanuel Levinas and Yeshayahu Leibowitz, who crossed the divide between Talmud and philosophy "proper." Adam Zachary Newton shows how the question of nationalism that has so long haunted Western philosophy—the question of who belongs within its "fence," and who outside—has long been the concern of Jewish thought and its preoccupation with law, limits, and the place of Israel among the nations. To those unfamiliar with Talmudic thought Newton shows how deeply its language and concerns shape Levinas. He also offers an introduction to Leibowitz, a conservative religious thinker who was an outspoken gadfly and radically critical voice in the Israeli political scene. Together, their common origin in Jewish Eastern Europe, a common concern with national allegiance, and the common fence of religious Judaism that makes them intellectual neighbors are voiced in penetrating and original dialogue.

Author : Peter Atterton,Matthew Calarco,Maurice S. Friedman
Publisher : Duquesne
Page : 344 pages
File Size : 40,6 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Philosophy
ISBN : UOM:39015059281884

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Levinas & Buber by Peter Atterton,Matthew Calarco,Maurice S. Friedman Pdf

Emmanuel Levinas and Martin Buber -- considered by many the most important Jewish philosophers since the 12th century sage Maimonides -- knew each other as associates and friends. Yet although their dialogue was instructive at times, and demonstrated the esteem in which Levinas held Buber, in particular, their relationship just as often exhibited a failure to communicate. This volume of essays is intended to resume the important dialogue between the two. Thriteen essays by a wide range of scholars do not attempt to assimilate the two philosopher's respective views to each other. Rather, these discussions provide an occasion to examine their genuine differences -- difference that both Levinas and Buber agreed were required for genuine dialogue to begin.