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Levinas Faces Biblical Figures
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2014
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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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Copyright year
2014
ISBN-Print
978-0-7391-8282-6
ISBN-Online
978-0-7391-8283-3
Publisher
Lexington, Lanham
Language
English
Pages
219
Product type
Edited Book
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Contents No access
Acknowledgments No access
Introduction No access Pages 1 - 16
Chapter One: The Meaning of the Abrahamic Adventure in Levinas’s Thought No access
Chapter Two: Welcoming the Other No access
Chapter Three: Cruel Justice, Responsibility, and Forgiveness No access
Chapter Four: The Power of Goodness No access
Chapter Five: Ruth No access
Chapter Six: Jonah: Hero of the Impossible Escape No access
Chapter Seven: Abel’s Look No access
Chapter Eight: The Mystery of the Red Heifer No access
