Elevations - The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Preface Acknowledgments Abbreviations 1: Jewish Election in the Thought of Franz Rosenzweig 2: Authentic Self and History: An Alternative to Heidegger 3: Rosenzweig versus Nietzsche 4: Rosenzweig contra Buber: Personal Pronouns 5: Emmanuel Levinas: Philosopher and Jew 6: On Temporality and Time 7: Non-in-difference 8: G-d in Levinas: The Justification of Justice and Philosophy 9: The Metaphysics of Gender 10: Levinas, Rosenzweig, and the Phenomenologies of Husserl and Heidegger 11: The Face of Truth and Jewish Mysticism 12: Absolute Positivity and Ultrapositivity: Beyond Husserl 13: On the Suffering of Meaning: Levinas "Outside" Heidegger's "Threshold" through Rosenzweig's "Gate" 14: Derrida's (Mal)reading of Levinas Bibliography Index

Summary

A series of closely related essays on the philosophical and theological work of Franz Rosenzweig and Emmanuel Levinas. The author describes how they articulated a responsible humanism and a new enlightenment which placed moral obligation to the other above all other human concerns.

Product details

• Authors: Richard A. Cohen, Cohen Richard A.
• Publisher: University Presses
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.12.1994
• EAN: 9780226112756
• ISBN: 978-0-226-11275-6
• No. of pages: 364
• Dimensions: 17 mm x 23 mm x 2 mm
• Weight: 539 g
• Series: Chicago Studies in the History; Chicago Studies in the History of Judaism; Chicago Studies in History of Judaism CSHJ (CHUP); Chicago Studies in History of Judaism CSHJ
• Subjects: Humanities, art, music > Philosophy > General, dictionaries; Non-fiction book > Philosophy, religion > Other world religions; PHILOSOPHY / History & Surveys / Modern, PHILOSOPHY / Ethics & Moral Philosophy, SOCIAL SCIENCE / Islamic Studies, PHILOSOPHY / Movements / Humanism, Ethics & moral philosophy, Ethics and moral philosophy, Western philosophy from c 1800, Western Philosophy, From C 1900 -, Humanist & Secular Alternatives To Religion, Humanist philosophy, Humanist and secular alternatives to religion, Islamic & Arabic philosophy, Islamic and Arab philosophy