Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas / Robert Gibbs.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Gibbs, Robert, 1958-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Rosenzweig, Franz, 1886-1929.

Rosenzweig, Franz.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Views on Judaism.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Judaism and philosophy.

Judaism--20th century.

Judaism.

Jewish philosophy.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (294 pages)

Edition:

Course Book

Place of Publication:

Princeton, N.J. : Princeton University Press, c1992.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and Christianity were markedly dissimilar. To Gibbs, however, the two thinkers possess basic affinities with each other. The book offers important insights into how philosophy is continually being altered by its encounter with other traditions.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations and Citations

INTRODUCTION: Philosophy and Its Others

CHAPTER 1. Correlations, Adaptation

CHAPTER 2. The Logic of Limitation

CHAPTER 3. Speech as Performance (I): The Grammar of Revelation

CHAPTER 4. Speech as Performance (II): Logic, Reading, Questions

CHAPTER 5. Eternity and Society (I): Sociology and History

CHAPTER 6. Eternity and Society (II): Politics vs. Aesthetics

CHAPTER 7. Correlations, Translation

CHAPTER 8. The Unique Other: Hermann Cohen and Emmanuel Levinas

CHAPTER 9. Substitution: Marcel and Levinas

CHAPTER 10. Marx and Levinas: Liberation in Society

EPILOGUE: Seven Rubrics for Jewish Philosophy

Notes

Select Bibliography

Name Index

Subject Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references (p. [271]-274) and indexes.

ISBN:

9786612751653

9781400802777

1400802776

9781400811755

1400811759

9781282751651

1282751654

9781400820825

1400820820

OCLC:

700688623