Levinas's Jewish thought : between Jerusalem and Athens / Ephraim Meir.

Author
Meir, Ephraim [Browse]
Format
Book
Language
English
Published/​Created
Jerusalem : Magnes Press, Hebrew University of JerusalemMagnes Press, Hebrew University of Jerusalem, 2008.
Description
301 p. ; 23 cm.

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Series
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Committed to retain in perpetuity — ReCAP Shared Collection (HUL)
Contents
  • Contents: Introduction: in praise of the exile
  • Between professional and confessional writings
  • "Greek" in "Hebrew": characteristics of Levinas's Jewish thinking
  • "Hebrew" in "Greek": beyond Heidegger
  • Levinas among contemporary Jewish thinkers: Buber's and Levinas's attitudes towards Judaism
  • The notion of revelation in Abraham Joshua Heschel's depth-theology and Levinas's ethical metaphysics
  • Mendelssohn's "Jerusalem" from Levinas's perspective
  • Topics in Levinas's Jewish thought: The Jewish notion of revelation
  • Levinas's approach to Judaism and Talmud versus the historicism of the nineteenth-century "Wissenschaft des Judentums"
  • On states and the State of Israel
  • On theodicy and evil
  • Conclusion: Shem and Jafet.
Place name(s)
Israel Jerusalem.
ISBN
9789654933131
OCLC
319131342
RCP
H - S
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