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A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
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A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism Paperback - 2010 - 1st Edition

by Michael Fagenblat


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"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a series of phenomenological observations. Decoding the Levinas's philosophy of Judaism within a Heideggerian and Pauline framework, Fagenblat uses biblical, rabbinic, and Maimonidean texts to provide sustained interpretations of the philosopher's work. Ultimately he calls for a reconsideration of the relation between tradition and philosophy, and of the meaning of faith after the death of epistemology.

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  • Title A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism
  • Author Michael Fagenblat
  • Binding Paperback
  • Edition number 1st
  • Edition 1
  • Pages 320
  • Volumes 1
  • Language ENG
  • Publisher Stanford University Press, Stanford
  • Date 2010-06-03
  • Features Bibliography, Index, Table of Contents
  • ISBN 9780804768702 / 0804768706
  • Weight 0.95 lbs (0.43 kg)
  • Dimensions 8.9 x 5.9 x 0.7 in (22.61 x 14.99 x 1.78 cm)
  • Themes
    • Chronological Period: 20th Century
    • Chronological Period: Modern
    • Religious Orientation: Jewish
  • Library of Congress subjects Philosophy, French - 20th century, Levinas, Emmanuel - Ethics
  • Library of Congress Catalog Number 2010000664
  • Dewey Decimal Code 194

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About the author

Michael Fagenblat is Lecturer in the Australian Centre for Jewish Civilisation, Monash University.
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