Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : philosophy and the politics of revelation /
Batnitzky, Leora Faye,1966-
New York ; Cambridge : Cambridge University Press,
2006.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 259-266) and index.
Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem -- Levinas's defense of modern philosophy : how Strauss might respond -- "Freedom depends upon its bondage" : the shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig -- An irrationalist rationalism : Levinas's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- The possibility of pre-modern rationalism : Strauss's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- Against utopia : law and its limits -- Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics -- Politics and hermeneutics : Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources -- Revelation and commandment : Strauss, Levinas, and the theologico-political predicament.
Strauss, Leo.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.
Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918.
Philosophy, Jewish.
Philosophy, Modern
Political science