| Description |
1 online resource (vii, 219 pages) |
| Contents |
Intro -- Title Page -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction -- Subjectivity, Hospitality and Exile -- The Meaning of the Abrahamic Adventure in Levinas's Thought -- Welcoming the Other -- Suffering, Justice, and Forgiveness -- Cruel Justice, Responsibility, and Forgiveness -- The Power of Goodness -- Choice and Election -- Ruth -- Jonah: Hero of the Impossible Escape -- The Face, Death, and Responsibility -- Abel's Look -- The Mystery of the Red Heifer -- Judaism, Messianism, and Zionism -- Joseph -- Ladders to Heaven -- Bibliography -- Index |
| Summary |
<Span style=""font-style:italic;"">Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references (pages 205-213) and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record and CIP data provided by publisher; resource not viewed |
| Subject |
Lévinas, Emmanuel
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| SUBJECT |
Lévinas, Emmanuel fast |
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Bible -- Criticism, interpretation, etc.
http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85013617
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Bible fast |
| Subject |
PHILOSOPHY -- History & Surveys -- Modern.
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| Genre/Form |
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Lin, Yael, editor
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| LC no. |
2021675859 |
| ISBN |
9780739182833 |
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0739182838 |
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130654811X |
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9781306548113 |
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