Ethics Ethnic Studies Freedom Gender Studies Globalization History of Philosophy Human Nature Human Rights Indian Philosophy Islamic Philosophy Jewish Philosophy Logic Metaphysics Miscellany Mysticism Native American Non-western Phil. Emmanuel Levinas takes Jewish thought to new levels, adding very new, yet very ancient ways of thinking into his works. I think it would be more fitting to put a Levinas quotes from Difficult Freedom in this review, and let you see for yourself. At the dawning of the new world, Judaism has the consciousness to possess, through its permanence, a function in the general economy of Being. No one can replace it.
Someone has to exist in the world who is as old as the world.
For Judaism, the great migrations of the people , the migrations among the people and the upheavals of history have never presented a deadly threat. It always found what remained to it. Perhaps Jewish thought in general consists today in holding on more firmly than ever to this permanence and this eternity. Judaism has traversed history history without taking up history's causes. It has the power to judge, alone against all, the victory of visible and organized forces - if need be in order to reject them.