From Spinoza to Lévinas
Subtitle: hermeneutical, ethical, and political issues in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy
By: Ze'ev Levy ; edited by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg.
Contributors: Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg.
Series: Studies in Judaism -- v. 4; Studies in Judaism (New York, N.Y.) -- v. 4.
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2009
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 181
ISBN-13: 9781433106972
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Jewish philosophy; Philosophy, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references (p. [171]-177) and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Politics and hermeneutics in the philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn; title: Tolerance, liberty and equality; title: Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writings; title: Pt. II. Philosophical hermeneutics; title: Biblical hermeneutics : J.G. Herder and J.W. von Goethe; title: Hermeneutics and demythologization : Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann; title: Hermeneutics and tradition; title: Pt. III. Ethics and contemporary Jewish thought; title: Death, dying, body, and soul; title: Does it make sense to speak about Jewish ethics?; title: Pt. IV. Lévinas, politics, and contemporary Jewish thought; title: Lévinas on state, revolution, and utopia; title: Lévinas on secularization; title: Lévinas on death and hope.