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Levinas Faces Biblical Figures (Hardcover) Loot Price: R2,671
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Levinas Faces Biblical Figures (Hardcover): Yael Lin

Levinas Faces Biblical Figures (Hardcover)

Yael Lin; Contributions by Ephraim Meir, Edna Langenthal, Gary D. Mole, Elisabeth Goldwyn, Catherine Chalier, Eli Schonfeld, Michal Ben-Naftali, Richard A. Cohen, Hanoch Ben-Pazi

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This collection of essays is an attempt to capture the drama of the encounter, of the 'facing' of Levinas and the biblical text. It seeks to link Jewish experience and Levinasian themes such as responsibility, substitution, hospitality, suffering and forgiveness, and at the same time make the biblical text accessible in a new way. The book offers new insights on the opening up of Levinas's thought and biblical stories to one another; it considers the ways in which Levinas can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas. Setting up in dialogue the heteronomic texts - the narrative texts of the bible and Levinas's philosophical texts - allows an enforced and renewed understanding of both. The examination of these issues is pursued from diverse perspectives and disciplines, probing the role biblical figures play in Levinas's thought and the manner by which to approach them. Do the biblical allusions serve in Levinas's thought merely as a rhetorical and literary device, as illustrations of his ideas, or perhaps they have a deeper philosophical meaning, which contributes to his project in general? Do the references to biblical figures work in Levinas's philosophy in a way that other literary figures are incapable of, and how do these references comply with his conflicted attitude towards literature?

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Imprint: Lexington Books
Country of origin: United States
Release date: March 2014
First published: March 2014
Editors: Yael Lin
Contributors: Ephraim Meir • Edna Langenthal • Gary D. Mole • Elisabeth Goldwyn • Catherine Chalier • Eli Schonfeld • Michal Ben-Naftali • Richard A. Cohen • Hanoch Ben-Pazi
Dimensions: 236 x 161 x 21mm (L x W x T)
Format: Hardcover
Pages: 228
ISBN-13: 978-0-7391-8282-6
Categories: Books > Language & Literature > Biography & autobiography > Religious & spiritual
Books > Humanities > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Social groups & communities > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > General > Philosophy of religion > General
Books > Humanities > Religion & beliefs > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Biography > Religious & spiritual
Books > Philosophy > Topics in philosophy > Aesthetics
Books > Religion & Spirituality > Non-Christian religions > Judaism > General
Books > Religion & Spirituality > General > Philosophy of religion > General
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LSN: 0-7391-8282-X
Barcode: 9780739182826

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