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Zusatztext "According to the famous Talmudic story in which a heathen challenges Hillel to reveal the whole of Torah while standing on one foot! the sage not only declares its essence to lie in the ethics of neighbor-love! relegating the rest to the status of 'mere' commentary; he enjoins his interlocutor to study that very textual supplement. Michael Fagenblat has made an utterly compelling case that a similar injunction is at work in Levinas's conception of ethical responsibility in the face of the Other. It! too! implies that this strange creature-the neighbor-can only be revealed exegetically ! in the working through of the hermeneutic dimension of the urgent phenomenological 'givenness' of the Other. In this beautifully written and conceptually rigorous page-turner! Fagenblat teaches us to resist the impasses of prior readings of Levinas! which remain stuck within the sterile opposition of phenomenology and theology! Athens and Jerusalem! thinking and reading! mind and tradition. Fagenblat allows us! finally! to grasp the genre proper to Levinasian thought: phenomenology as midrash ." Informationen zum Autor Michael Fagenblat is Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University. Klappentext Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, "Totality and Infinity" and "Otherwise than Being" through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas. Zusammenfassung Rejecting the distinction Levinas asserted between Judaism and philosophy, this book reads his philosophical works, Totality and Infinity and Otherwise than Being through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas.
