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Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas

By Robert Gibbs

Book information

Publisher
Princeton University Press
Year
1994
ISBN
9781400820825
DOI
10.1515/9781400820825
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
960 kB (983495 bytes)
Edition
Course Book
Pages
293\293
Library
degruyter.com
Time added
2023-08-24 00:34:58

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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