Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn : philosophy and Jewish thought / Ethan Kleinberg.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967- author.

Series:

Cultural memory in the present.

Cultural Memory in the Present Series

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Jewish philosophy--20th century.

Jewish philosophy.

Talmud--Criticism, interpretation, etc--History.

Talmud.

Lévinas, Emmanuel--Religion.

Lévinas, Emmanuel.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (248 p.)

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]

Language Note:

In English.

Summary:

In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons. Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between "God on Our Side" and "God on God's Side" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from "our side" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from "God on God's own side." Bringing the two approaches together, Kleinberg asks whether the ethical message and moral urgency of Levinas's Talmudic lectures can be extended beyond the texts and beliefs of a chosen people, religion, or even the seemingly primary unit of the self. Touching on Western philosophy, French Enlightenment universalism, and the Lithuanian Talmudic tradition, Kleinberg provides readers with a boundary-pushing investigation into the origins, influences, and causes of Levinas's turn to and use of Talmud.

Contents:

Frontmatter

Contents

Acknowledgments

Abbreviations

Chronology of Levinas’s Talmudic Lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française

Introduction: God on Our Side / God on God’s Own Side

1 Being-Jewish, from Vilna to Paris

2 The Alliance Israélite Universelle, Shushani, and the École Normale Israélite Universelle

3 The Talmudic Lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française

4 Hebrew into Greek: Translation and Exemplarism

Conclusion: Constitutive Dissymmetry

Notes

Index

Cultural Memory in the Present

Notes:

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Nov 2021)

Description based upon print version of record.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781503629608

1503629600

OCLC:

1238130311