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My reading of Levinas's magnificent philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being is based on two primary convictions. The first is that Levinas's philosophical works, in which he addresses and enjoins people without regard for identity (without regard for peoplehood...
| Published in: | AJS review |
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| Subtitles: | Exchange |
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| Format: | Electronic Article |
| Language: | English |
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| Published: |
University of Pennsylvania Press
[2011]
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| In: |
AJS review
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| Standardized Subjects / Keyword chains: | B
Lévinas, Emmanuel 1906-1995
/ Philosophy
/ Judaism
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| RelBib Classification: | BH Judaism VA Philosophy |
| Further subjects: | B
Ethical epistemology
B Jewish Tradition B Morality B Judaism B Torah B Jewish ethics B Christian Ethics B Thought |
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| Summary: | My reading of Levinas's magnificent philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being is based on two primary convictions. The first is that Levinas's philosophical works, in which he addresses and enjoins people without regard for identity (without regard for peoplehood and law), were produced out of strong readings of the Judaic tradition. Samuel Moyn showed how deeply Levinas was nurtured by interwar Protestant philosophical theology, and I sought to show that it was also possible to read Levinas's philosophy through the rabbinic tradition. Whereas Moyn's outstanding work shrugged off Levinas's Judaism as an “invention,” I regard Levinas as a midrashic philosopher whose account of ethics amounts to a non-Jewish Judaism—non-Jewish since it is addressed to anyone, yet Judaism since, in my view, it is midrashically determined from the ground up. Most of the book attempts to show how Levinas's philosophy works as a reading of core concepts from the Judaic tradition and thereby as a phenomenological midrash of biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts, all of which Levinas knew well. |
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| ISSN: | 1475-4541 |
| Contains: | Enthalten in: Association for Jewish Studies, AJS review
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| Persistent identifiers: | DOI: 10.1017/S0364009411000109 |