A Covenant of Creatures
eBook - ePub

A Covenant of Creatures

Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism

  1. 320 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

A Covenant of Creatures

Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism

About this book

"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.

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Table of contents

  1. Cultural Memory in the Present
  2. Title Page
  3. Copyright Page
  4. Dedication
  5. Table of Contents
  6. Preface: Judaism as a Philosophical Way of Life
  7. Acknowledgments
  8. 1 - Levinas’s New Creation
  9. 2 - From Chaos to Creation
  10. 3 - Ethics in the Image of God
  11. INTERLUDE
  12. 4 - Ethical Negative Theology
  13. 5 - Secularizing the Covenant
  14. 6 - The Ambivalence of Fraternity
  15. Notes
  16. Bibliography
  17. Index
  18. Cultural Memory in the Present