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Reading Levinas/reading Talmud : an introduction /
Although Jewish scholars have recognized the French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas as one of the greatest minds of this century, the majority of Jews have remained ignorant of his teachings, largely because his work-even in translation-is dense and erudite. Rabbi Ira Stone, who has studied Levinas...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Philadelphia :
Jewish Publication Society,
1998.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Theory: a Levinasian dictionary. General remarks ; the general philosophy ; Time, love, and fecundity ; The face, the trace, and the third person ; Infinity ; The response to the face: language and ethics ; An interruption: Levinas and Talmud ; A second interruption: Ḥayyim of Volozhin ; Toward God
- Method. Method: general remarks ; In the beginning ; The first reading ; The second reading ; The third reading
- The practice of Talmud: the readings. Prayer and the end of metaphysics ; Translation and the limits of logic ; The search of meaning and the meaning of the search ; Life, death, and doing the laundry ; What's in a new year? ; Prophecy, sacrifice, and suffering ; The problem of the absent God ; Constructing the gateway to Heaven ; What is Hanukkah? ; You must be crazy to speak of redemption: Purim and a conclusion of sorts.