Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas
Subtitle: philosophy and the politics of revelation
By: Leora Batnitzky.
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: 2006
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 280
ISBN-13: 9780521861564
Subjects: Strauss, Leo; Lévinas, Emmanuel; Cohen, Hermann, 1842-1918; Philosophy, Jewish; Philosophy, Modern -- 20th century; Political science -- Philosophy
Description: "Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerable over the last twenty years, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs." "In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels."--Jacket.
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem; title: Levinas's defense of modern philosophy : how Strauss might respond; title: "Freedom depends upon its bondage" : the shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig; title: An irrationalist rationalism : Levinas's transformation of Hermann Cohen; title: The possibility of pre-modern rationalism : Strauss's transformation of Hermann Cohen; title: Against utopia : law and its limits; title: Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics; title: Politics and hermeneutics : Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources; title: Revelation and commandment : Strauss, Levinas, and the theologico-political predicament.