From Spinoza to Lévinas
Subtitle: on some hermeneutical, ethical and political issues of modern Jewish philosophy
By: Ze'ev Levy ; edited by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg.
Contributors: Greenberg, Yudit Kornberg.
Series: Studies in Judaism -- v. 4
Publisher: Peter Lang
Published: 2010
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
ISBN-13: 9781433106972
Subjects: Spinoza, Benedictus de, -- 1632-1677; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Philosophy, Jewish; Philosophy, Modern
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Pt. I. Some modern implications of Spinoza's and Mendelssohn's political and hermeneutical philosophy; title: Tolerance, liberty and equality, the concept of freedom according to Spinoza and Mendelssohn; title: On spinoza's concept of obedience; title: On the motives of Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writing; title: On J. G. Herder's and J. W. von Goethe's biblical hermeneutics; title: Pt. II. On some topics of modern Jewish philosophy; title: Hermeneutics and demythologization Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann; title: Hermeneutics and tradition; title: On death and dying, conceptual changes in the relationship between body and soul in the wake of modern science; title: Has it sense to speak about Jewish ethics?; title: Pt. III. On some political implications of Emmanuel Lévinas philosophy; title: Lévinas reflections on state, revolution and utopia from a Jewish perspective; title: Lévinas on secularization in modern society; title: Lévinas on death and hope.