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The Exorbitant - Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians (Hardcover)
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The Exorbitant - Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians (Hardcover)
Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
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We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have
to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by
distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and
theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him
inviting us to break completely with the pagan world in which the
gods are simply the highest beings in the cosmos and learn to
practice an adult religion in which God is outside cosmology and
ontology. God comes to mind neither in our attempts to think him as
the creator of the cosmos nor in moments of ecstasy but in acts of
genuine holiness, such as sharing a piece of bread with someone in
a time of desperate need. Levinas, in short, enjoins us to be
exorbitant in our dealings with one another. This book asks how the
"between" of Levinas's thinking facilitates a dialogue between Jews
and Christians. In one sense, Levinas stands exactly between Jews
and Christians: ethics, as he conceives it, is a space in which
religious traditions can meet. At the same time, his position seems
profoundly ambivalent. No one can read a page of his writings
without hearing a Jewish voice as well a a philosophical one. Yet
his talk of substitution seems to resonate with Christological
themes. On occasion, Levinas himself sharply distinguishes Judaism
from Christianity--but to what extent can his thinking become the
basis for a dialogue between Christians and Jews? This book, with a
stellar cast of contributors, explores these questions, thereby
providing a snapshot of the current state of Jewish-Christian
dialogue.
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