Out of control
Subtitle: confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas
By: Richard A. Cohen
Series: SUNY series in contemporary Jewish thought
Publisher: State University of New York Press
Published: 2015
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 346
ISBN-13: 9781438461090; 9781438461113
Subjects: Jewish philosophy; Modern Philosophy
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: I. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche and the body; title: II. Prophetic speech in Levinas and Spinoza (and Maimonides); title: III. Levinas and Spinoza: to love God for nothing; title: IV. Levinas and Spinoza: justice and the state; title: V. Spinoza's Prince: for whom is the theological-political treatise written?  VI. Levinas on Spinoza's misunderstanding of Judaism; title: VII. Thinking least about death: mortality and morality in Spinoza, Heidegger and Levinas; title: VIII. Spleen: Spinoza's babies, fools and madmen.