Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : philosophy and the politics of revelation /
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 theo...
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Language: | English |
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Cambridge University Press,
2006
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Summary: | 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, first published in 2006, 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. |
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Physical Description: | 1 online resource (xxii, 280 pages) |
Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 259-266) and index. |
ISBN: | 052186156X 9780521861564 9780511221378 0511221371 9780511219436 0511219431 9780511499050 0511499051 1107168201 9781107168206 1280480246 9781280480249 9786610480241 6610480249 0511220537 9780511220531 0511308973 9780511308970 0511220111 9780511220111 |
Language: | English. |
Source of Description, Etc. Note: | Print version record. |