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Levinas and the Torah : a phenomenological approach /
"The French philosopher Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) was one of the most original Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century. This book interprets the Hebrew Bible through the lens of Levinas's religious philosophy. Richard I. Sugarman examines the Pentateuch using a phenomenological approach,...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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Albany :
State University of New York,
[2019]
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| Colección: | SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Intro; Contents; Preface; Encountering Levinas; A Brief Biography of Emmanuel Levinas; Levinas's Philosophical Works; The Importance of Levinas to Contemporary Jewish Thought; The Burden of Post-Holocaust Jewish Thought: The Radicalizing of Levinas's Philosophical Thinking on the Holocaust; Levinas's Phenomenological Approach; Acknowledgments; Note to the Reader; The Jewish Bible; Torah and Interpretation; The Order of the Book; New Word Concepts Advanced by Levinas; On Transliteration from Hebrew to English; Key to Abbreviations of Works by Levinas; Genesis Bereishis; On Genesis
- Facing Responsibility (Beresheis: In the Beginning)The Love of Wisdom and the Wisdom of Love (Noach: Noah); The Meta-Covenant; Humanism without Transcendence; A New Paradigm for the Human Subject: The Other before the Self (Lech Lecha: Go Out of Yourself); Covenant; On Justice and Its Surplus (Vayeira: The Lord Appeared); Moral Reasoning: Explanation and Justice; The Binding of Isaac: The Yours (Akedah: Binding); The Death of the Other (Chayei Sarah: The Life of Sarah); Continuity and Discontinuity; Generational Responsibility (Toldos: Generations); Rebecca's Fourfold Responsibility
- Love and Work in Exile (Vayeitze: He Went Out)Fear and Anguish (Vayishlach: He Sent); Before Dawn: Jacob/Israel; Settling (Vayeshev: He Settled); Teshuva: Turning; Yehuda and Tamar: The Face, Rectitude, and Voluptuosity; Dreams, Hermeneutics, and Action (Mikeitz: At the End Of); Bread and Work; Fraternity and Responsibility; Substitution and Solidarity (Vayigash: And He Approached); Eglah Arufah: Assigning Responsibility; Intimations of a Messianic Time (Vayechi: And He Lived); Exodus Shemos; On Exodus; Proper Names (Shemos: Names); The Fourfold Promise (Va'eira: I Appeared)
- Making Time (Bo: Go)Taste and Meaning (Beshalach: Sent Out); The Language of Revelation (Yisro: The Giving of the Torah); Time and Revelation; The Order of Meaning vs. the Meaning of Order; Economic and Social Justice (Mishpatim: Laws for Which Reason Is Easily Adduced); Social Justice: Its Prescriptions and Promise; Feeding the Hungry (Terumah: Portion); Daily Fidelity (Tetzaveh: Command); In the Absence of Moses; The Trace (Ki Sisa: Take a Census); Expression and Discourse; The Incalculable: Suffering and Justice; After Fire (Vayakhel: Assembling); The Portability of the Ark; Generosity
- Accountability (Pekudei: Reckonings of the Tabernacle)Leviticus Vayikra; On Leviticus; The Saying and the Said (Vayikra: To Call); Speech in the Imperative Mode (Tzav: Command); On Ritual; Questioning, Responding, and Answering (Shementi: Eighth); The Skin of Others (Tazria: Skin Disease); From One's Own Skin toward the Skin of Others (Excursus on Job); The Sincerity of the Saying (Metzora: The Afflicted); The Paradox of Pardon: Teshuvah and Time (Acharei Mos: After the Death); Jonah (Excursus): Teshuvah Further Explored; Holiness (Kedoshim: The Laws of Holiness)