The Exorbitant : Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians / ed. by Michael A. Singer, Kevin Hart.
Batnitzky, Leora, contributor.; Bloechl, Jeffrey, contributor.; Cohen, Richard A., contributor.; Franks, Paul, contributor.; Gibbs, Robert, contributor.; Hart, Kevin, contributor.; Hart, Kevin, editor.; Hollander, Dana, contributor.; Horner, Robyn, contributor.; Kosky, Jeffrey L., contributor.; Marion, Jean-Luc, contributor.; Purcell, Michael, contributor.; Signer, Michael A., contributor.; Singer, Michael A., editor.; Westphal, Merold, contributor.; Wolfson, Elliot R., contributor.; Wyschogrod, Edith, contributor.
2022
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Title The Exorbitant : Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians / ed. by Michael A. Singer, Kevin Hart.
ISBN 9780823292929
DOI https://doi.org/10.1515/9780823292929
Published New York, NY : Fordham University Press, [2022]
Copyright ©2010
Language English
Language Note In English.
Description 1 online resource (304 p.)
Other Standard Identifiers 10.1515/9780823292929 doi
Summary We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him inviting us to break completely with the pagan world in which the gods are simply the highest beings in the cosmos and learn to practice an adult religion in which God is outside cosmology and ontology. God comes to mind neither in our attempts to think him as the creator of the cosmos nor in moments of ecstasy but in acts of genuine holiness, such as sharing a piece of bread with someone in a time of desperate need. Levinas, in short, enjoins us to be exorbitant in our dealings with one another. This book asks how the "between" of Levinas's thinking facilitates a dialogue between Jews and Christians. In one sense, Levinas stands exactly between Jews and Christians: ethics, as he conceives it, is a space in which religious traditions can meet. At the same time, his position seems profoundly ambivalent. No one can read a page of his writings without hearing a Jewish voice as well a a philosophical one. Yet his talk of substitution seems to resonate with Christological themes. On occasion, Levinas himself sharply distinguishes Judaism from Christianity--but to what extent can his thinking become the basis for a dialogue between Christians and Jews? This book, with a stellar cast of contributors, explores these questions, thereby providing a snapshot of the current state of Jewish-Christian dialogue.
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Added Author Batnitzky, Leora, contributor.
Bloechl, Jeffrey, contributor.
Cohen, Richard A., contributor.
Franks, Paul, contributor.
Gibbs, Robert, contributor.
Hart, Kevin, contributor.
Hart, Kevin, editor.
Hollander, Dana, contributor.
Horner, Robyn, contributor.
Kosky, Jeffrey L., contributor.
Marion, Jean-Luc, contributor.
Purcell, Michael, contributor.
Signer, Michael A., contributor.
Singer, Michael A., editor.
Westphal, Merold, contributor.
Wolfson, Elliot R., contributor.
Wyschogrod, Edith, contributor.
Series Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
In Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
Fordham University Press eBook-Package Backlist 2000-2013
Available in Other Form print 9780823230167
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Frontmatter
Contents
Acknowledgments
Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant
Levinas Between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology
The Disincarnation of the Word
Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas
Against Theology, or ''The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy''
Is the Other My Neighbor?
''Love Strong as Death''
On Levinas's Gifts to Christian Theology
The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior
Profligacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas
Excess and Desire
The Care of the Other and Substitution
Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks?
Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas
Words of Peace and Truth
Notes
Contributors
Index
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