The exorbitant : Emmanuel Levinas between Jews and Christians /

Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology and theology. This book asks how Levinas' thinking facilitates a dialogue between Jews and Christians.

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Other Authors: Hart, Kevin, 1954-, Signer, Michael A., 1945-2009
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: New York : Fordham University Press, ©2010.
Edition:1st ed.
Series:Perspectives in continental philosophy.
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Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Levinas the exorbitant / Kevin Hart
  • Levinas between German metaphysics and Christian theology / Leora Batnitzky
  • The disincarnation of the Word : the trace of God in reading Scripture / Robert Gibbs
  • Secrecy, modesty, and the feminine : kabbalistic traces in the thought of Levinas / Elliott R. Wolfson
  • Against theology, or "the devotion of a theology without theodicy" : Levinas on religion / Richard A. Cohen
  • Is the other my neighbor? : reading Levinas alongside Hermann Cohen / Dana Hollander
  • "Love strong as death" : Levinas and Heidegger / Jeffrey L. Kosky
  • On Levinas's gifts to Christian theology / Robyn Horner
  • The prevenience and phenomenality of grace, or, the anteriority of the posterior / Michael Purcell
  • Prolifigacy, parsimony, and the ethics of expenditure in the philosophy of Levinas / Edith Wyschogrod
  • Excess and desire : commentary on totality and infinity, section I, part D / Jeffrey Bloechl
  • The care of the other and substitution / Jean-Luc Marion
  • Should Jews and Christians fear the gifts of the Greeks? : reflections on Levinas, translation, and atheistic theology / Paul Franks
  • Thinking about God andGod-talk with Levinas / Merold Westphal
  • Words of peace and truth : a-dieu, Llevinas / Michael A. Signer.