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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 228x152x17 mm, kaal: 461 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2007
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521679354
  • ISBN-13: 9780521679350
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  • Formaat: Paperback / softback, 304 pages, kõrgus x laius x paksus: 228x152x17 mm, kaal: 461 g, Worked examples or Exercises
  • Ilmumisaeg: 23-Aug-2007
  • Kirjastus: Cambridge University Press
  • ISBN-10: 0521679354
  • ISBN-13: 9780521679350
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Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of 'religion', suggesting ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.

Leora Batnitzky brings together two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that their projects had many parallels.

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'This book is brilliant, scholarly, and provocative. It combines with rare success philosophical acumen, historical learning, and an exciting thesis. Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation is a major work of theology by one of the premier thinkers in religious philosophy of the day, writing at the very highest level of commentary, having produced a book with potential to resonate in a wide variety of fields, with critical implications (most drawn by the author herself) for thinking about major figures, schools, and discussions, executed with exemplary erudition.' Samuel Moyn, Columbia University 'Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation is an original work of engagement of these two important thinkers that takes us far beyond what most of their admirers and detractors have written about their thought. Leora Batnitzky is a critical scholar and thinker in a class by herself.' David Novak, University of Toronto

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In this 2006 book, Leora Batnitzky brings together two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that their projects had many parallels.
Acknowledgments xi
List of Abbreviations
xiii
Preface xvii
PART ONE: PHILOSOPHY
Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem
3(25)
Jewish Philosophy between Athens and Jerusalem
5(3)
After Heidegger: Maimonides between Athens and Jerusalem
8(7)
The Scope of Philosophy
15(4)
Back to Nature?
19(3)
The Philosophical Return to Religion or the Religious Turn to Philosophy?
22(2)
Philosophy and the Problem of Evil
24(4)
Levinas's Defense of Modern Philosophy: How Strauss Might Respond
28(29)
The Argument of Totality and Infinity
30(3)
Heidegger and Husserl
33(2)
Levinas and Descartes
35(3)
The Separable Self and Ethics or Descartes Once Again
38(4)
How to Understand Levinas's Use of Descartes: What Strauss Might Say
42(5)
The Difference between Levinas and Strauss or on Descartes Yet Again
47(5)
Levinas and the Messianic Aspirations of Philosophy
52(5)
PART TWO: REVELATION
`Freedom Depends Upon Its Bondage': The Shared Debt to Franz Rosenzweig
57(18)
Levinas's Reading: Rosenzweig's Opposition to Totality
59(3)
Strauss's Reading: God as Wholly Other
62(5)
What to Make of this Difference: Levinas as Post-Christian Philosopher
67(6)
Modern Philosophy and the Legacy of Christianity
73(2)
An Irrationalist Rationalism: Levinas's Transformation of Hermann Cohen
75(19)
Future and Past, Inside and Out
77(3)
The Shared Criticism of Spinoza: A Case Study
80(5)
The Difference between Cohen and Levinas: Reason vs. Sensibility
85(5)
Cohen, Levinas, and the Legacy of Kant
90(4)
The Possibility of Premodern Rationalism: Strauss's Transformation of Hermann Cohen
94(23)
History and Truth, Outside and In
95(4)
Reading Spinoza or on the Necessity of Historicizing Philosophy
99(5)
Maimonides and the Possibility of Premodern Rationalism
104(8)
Beyond Cohen?
112(5)
PART THREE: POLITICS
Against Utopia: Law and Its Limits
117(23)
Philosophy, Law, and the Difference between Judaism and Christianity
118(5)
The Question of Natural Right
123(6)
Skepticism and Antiutopianism
129(3)
Skepticism and Religion
132(4)
Religion and Society, or Religion in America
136(4)
Zionism and the Discovery of Prophetic Politics
140(23)
The Early Strauss: Zionism and Law
141(7)
Strauss's Prophetic Politics out of the Sources of Zionism
148(3)
Levinas's Zionism: From Politics to Religion
151(8)
Religion and Politics
159(4)
Politics and Hermeneutics: Strauss's and Levinas's Retrieval of Classical Jewish Sources
163(18)
Strauss's Hermeneutics: Esotericism, Exile, and Elitism
164(8)
Levinas's Hermeneutics: From Law to Ethics
172(5)
Politics and Reading
177(4)
Revelation and Commandment: Strauss, Levinas, and the Theologico-Political Predicament
181(23)
Strauss and Modern Jewish Thought: The Guttmann Debate
182(4)
On Not Acknowledging the Modern Break with the Jewish Past
186(7)
Jewish Law in America
193(8)
The Challenge of Contemporary Jewish Thought
201(3)
Concluding Thoughts: Progress or Return?
204(13)
Strauss's Philosophical Legacy
205(5)
Against Contemporary Appropriations of Strauss
210(2)
Is Modernity Worth Defending?
212(5)
Notes 217(42)
References 259(8)
Index 267
Leora Batnitzky is Asssociate Professor of Religion at Princeton University. She is the author of Idolatry and Representation: the Philosophy of Franz Rosenzweig Reconsidered and editor of the forthcoming Martin Buber: Schriften zur Philosophie und Religion. She is co-editor of Jewish Studies Quarterly.