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Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas

By Robert Gibbs

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
0691029644, 9780691029641, 0691074151, 9780691074153, 9781400811755
LCC
BM565 .G44 1992
Open Library ID
OL1705851M
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
1 MB (1541106 bytes)
Pages
293\293
Topic
Biology Genetics
Scanned
yes
Time added
2010-06-26 00:49:36

Description

Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy--Franz Rosenzweig, author of the monumental Star of Redemption, and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blanchot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and Christianity were markedly dissimilar. To Gibbs, however, the two thinkers possess basic affinities with each other. The book offers important insights into how philosophy is continually being altered by its encounter with other traditions.

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