"Elevations" is a series of closely related essays on the
ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel
Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most
important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of
transcendence, Richard A. Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas
join the wisdom of revealed religions to the work of traditional
philosophers to create a philosophy charged with the tasks of
ethics and justice. He describes how they articulated a responsible
humanism and a new enlightenment which would place moral obligation
to the other above all other human concerns. This elevating pull of
an ethics that can account for the relation of self and other
without reducing either term is the central theme of these essays.
Cohen also explores the ethical philosophy of these two thinkers in
relation to Nietzsche, Husserl, Heidegger, Buber, Sartre, and
Derrida. The result is one of the most wide-ranging and lucid
studies yet written on these crucial figures in philosophy and
Jewish thought.
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