Levinas and the Torah

Levinas and the Torah
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Publisher : State University of New York Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 9781438475745
ISBN-13 : 1438475748
Rating : 4/5 (45 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Levinas and the Torah by : Richard I. Sugarman

Download or read book Levinas and the Torah written by Richard I. Sugarman and published by State University of New York Press. This book was released on 2019-08-23 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

Nine Talmudic Readings

Nine Talmudic Readings
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Publisher : Indiana University Press
Total Pages : 273
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ISBN-10 : 9780253040503
ISBN-13 : 0253040507
Rating : 4/5 (03 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Nine Talmudic Readings by : Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Nine Talmudic Readings written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by Indiana University Press. This book was released on 2019-05-16 with total page 273 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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.

A Covenant of Creatures

A Covenant of Creatures
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Publisher : Stanford University Press
Total Pages : 319
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ISBN-10 : 9780804774680
ISBN-13 : 0804774684
Rating : 4/5 (80 Downloads)

Book Synopsis A Covenant of Creatures by : Michael Fagenblat

Download or read book A Covenant of Creatures written by Michael Fagenblat and published by Stanford University Press. This book was released on 2010-06-03 with total page 319 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: "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.

The Fence and the Neighbor

The Fence and the Neighbor
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 292
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ISBN-10 : 0791447847
ISBN-13 : 9780791447840
Rating : 4/5 (47 Downloads)

Book Synopsis The Fence and the Neighbor by : Adam Zachary Newton

Download or read book The Fence and the Neighbor written by Adam Zachary Newton and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2001-01-01 with total page 292 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Reviews the potentially complementary albeit sharp differences between two important contemporary Jewish philosophers.

Beyond the Verse

Beyond the Verse
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Publisher : A&C Black
Total Pages : 248
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ISBN-10 : 0485114305
ISBN-13 : 9780485114300
Rating : 4/5 (05 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Beyond the Verse by : Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Beyond the Verse written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by A&C Black. This book was released on 1994-01-01 with total page 248 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Available in paperback for the first time, this is an important collection of essays dealing with problems in Jewish thought.

Difficult Freedom

Difficult Freedom
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Publisher : Johns Hopkins University Press
Total Pages : 320
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ISBN-10 : 080185783X
ISBN-13 : 9780801857836
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Book Synopsis Difficult Freedom by : Emmanuel Levinas

Download or read book Difficult Freedom written by Emmanuel Levinas and published by Johns Hopkins University Press. This book was released on 1997-11-14 with total page 320 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Topics include ethics, aesthetics, politics, messianism, Judaism and women, and Jewish-Christian relations, as well as the work of Spinoza, Hegel, Heidegger, Franz Rosenzweig, Simone Weil, and Jules Issac.

Levinas and the Torah

Levinas and the Torah
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Publisher : SUNY Press
Total Pages : 428
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ISBN-10 : 9781438475738
ISBN-13 : 143847573X
Rating : 4/5 (38 Downloads)

Book Synopsis Levinas and the Torah by : Richard I. Sugarman

Download or read book Levinas and the Torah written by Richard I. Sugarman and published by SUNY Press. This book was released on 2019-09-01 with total page 428 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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