Product Details
- Author: WRIGHT
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- Binding: Hardcover
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- Dewey Decimal Number: 170.92
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- EAN: 9789057023507
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- ISBN: 9057023504
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- Label: Routledge
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- Manufacturer: Routledge
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- Number of Items: 1
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- Number of Pages: 180
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- Product Group: Book
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- Publication Date: 1999-04-01
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- Publisher: Routledge
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- Studio: Routledge
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- Title: Twilight of Jewish Philosophy: Emmanuel Levinas' Ethical Hermeneutics
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Product Description: Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) is widely acknowledged as one of the great Jewish thinkers of the 20th century, yet during his lifetime he refused the label 'Jewish philosopher', insisting that he was a philosopher tout court. The Twilight of Jewish Philosophy explores the relationship between Levinas' ethical philosophy and his understanding of Judaism.
The first chapter focuses on the 'face-to-face' or 'ethical relation', as it is presented in Totality and Infinity. Subsequent chapters are concerned with showing how this quasi- phenomenological account of the ethical relation provides the orientation for Levinas' approach to interpreting the texts of both Judaism and western thought, his 'ethical hermeneutics'. Through close readings of his major texts, the significance of key terms in Levinas' discourse - particularly 'humanism', 'God' and 'Judaism' - is clarified. Finally, the author examines the writings that constitute Levinas' most distinctive contribution to Jewish thoug
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