Levinas and the crisis of humanism / Claire Elise Katz.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Katz, Claire Elise, 1964-

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Education--Philosophy.

Education.

Humanities--Philosophy.

Humanities.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (247 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2013.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's ""Crisis of Humanism,"" which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.

Contents:

1. The limits of the humanities

2. Solitary men

3. The crisis of humanism

4. Before phenomenology

5. The promise of Jewish education

6. Teaching, fecundity, responsibility

7. Humanism found.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

9781283869935

1283869934

9780253007674

0253007674

OCLC:

822667271