Driven back to the text : the premodern sources of Levinas' postmodernism / Oona Ajzenstat (Oona Eisenstadt).

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Ajzenstat, Oona, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Judaism and philosophy.

Holocaust (Jewish theology).

Physical Description:

ix, 388 pages ; 23 cm

Place of Publication:

Pittsburgh, Pa. : Duquesne University Press, [2001]

Contents:

1. The Structure of Levinas's Thought 19

The basic structure: same and other 21

The problems of narrative order 32

Ethics and politics 49

Ethics and Judaism 64

2. The Bible and Prophecy 85

Illeity and Levinas's book 86

The midrash 108

Levinas on theology 108

The beginning of the midrash 115

Levinas on prophecy 121

The rest of the midrash 127

3. The Kabbalah and Deconstruction 139

Levinas and Abulafia 150

Deconstruction and knots: rupture from the height 151

Prophecy, witness and glory: union on the horizontal 161

Mystical union 167

Levinas and Luria 170

4. The Talmud and History 201

Between Two Worlds 219

The problem 220

Religion and love 229

Standing outside of history 236

Messianic Texts 247

5. Night Space 277

Nights 278

Four stories 278

Useless Suffering 290

The space of his ethics 307.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references (pages 371-380) and index.

ISBN:

0820703257

OCLC:

46315086