A covenant of creatures : Levinas's philosophy of Judaism / Michael Fagenblat.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Fagenblat, Michael.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural memory in the present

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Ethics.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Ethics, Modern.

Judaism--Philosophy.

Judaism.

Philosophy, French--20th century.

Philosophy, French.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (319 p.)

Place of Publication:

Stanford, Calif. : Stanford University Press, 2010.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

"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.

Contents:

Front matter

Contents

Preface: Judaism as a Philosophical Way of Life

1. Levinas’s New Creation

2. From Chaos to Creation

3. Ethics in the Image of God

Interlude: From Moral Creators to Ethical Creatures: Levinas’s Kehre

4. Ethical Negative Theology

5. Secularizing the Covenant

6. The Ambivalence of Fraternity

Conclusion

Notes

Bibliography

Index

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 23. Jul 2020)

ISBN:

9780804774680

0804774684

OCLC:

646068282