Correlations In Rosenzweig and Levinas (ebook)

Argumento de Correlations In Rosenzweig and Levinas (ebook)

Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Jewish Thought

"Clear in expression and design. . . . Correlations clearly advances our understanding of modern Jewish philosophy."--Religious Studies Review

"This book is about ... two of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.... The result is provocative and thoughtful, showing serious scholarship and deep understanding."--Journal of Religion

"This ambitious work seeks to reclassify both Rosenzweig and Levinas ... through wide-ranging and rather novel use of the concept of `correlation,' meaning here not only correlation of themes in the writings of the two authors but also and more importantly correlation between the great enterprises of Judaism and philosophy; each of these has historically been enriched by the other and both continue to need such enrichment today."--Choice

"Both as a study of its two major figures and as a contribution to the development of Jewish philosophy in a postmodern context, this is a stimulating and illuminating study."--Merold Westphal, International Philosophical Quarterly0Acknowledgments Abbreviations and Citations Introduction: Philosophy and Its Others 3 Two Lives 5 The Task 10 Ch. 1 Correlations, Adaptation 17 A Family Portrait 17 The Basic Influences 23 Adaptation 31 Ch. 2 The Logic of Limitation 34 Death and Philosophy 36 The Star Inside Out 40 Getting Something from Nothing 46 Conclusion: Reason and Discontinuity 54 Ch. 3 Speech as Performance (I): The Grammar of Revelation 57 Performing and Grammar 59 The Moods of Theology 67 Ch. 4 Speech as Performance (II): Logic, Reading, Questions 80 Prophetic Thinking, Fulfilling Speech 81 God Speaks with Human Language 92 The Question of Theology 100 Ch. 5 Eternity and Society (I): Sociology and History 105 Social Time 107 Place-Holders and Historical Claims 113 Ch. 6 Eternity and Society (II): Politics vs. Aesthetics 129 Form and Force (Gestalt and Gewalt) 129 Gestures of Eternity 136 Eternal Enmity 151 Ch. 7 Correlations, Translation 155 From Politics to Rhetoric 158 Translation into 'Greek' 164 Philosophical Hermeneutics 167 'Hebrew's' Demand for 'Greek' 171 Appendix: Levinas' Texts for the Colloquiums 175 Ch. 8 The Unique Other: Hermann Cohen and Emmanuel Levinas 176 Cohen's Double Discovery of the 'You' 178 Levinas' Account of the Other 181 The Other's Freedom / My Re-sponsibility 184 Companion or Stranger? 188 Ch. 9 Substitution: Marcel and Levinas 192 Performing De-centering 194 Levinas' Subtitution 204 Into My Own Voice 222 Appendix: Pre-Texts 226 Ch. 10 Marx and Levinas: Liberation in Society 229 In the Face of the Other: Levinas' Economics 230 Marx's Social Ethics 243 Revolution and the Face 250 Appendix: Levinas on Marx 252 Epilogue: Seven Rubrics for Jewish Philosophy 255 Notes 261 Select Bibliography 271 Name Index 275 Subject Index 277