Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : philosophy and the politics of revelation /
Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theo...
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Cambridge ; New York :
Cambridge University Press,
2006.
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| גישה מקוונת: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=167900 |
תוכן הענינים:
- Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem
- Levinas's defense of modern philosophy : how Strauss might respond
- "Freedom depends upon its bondage" : the shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig
- An irrationalist rationalism : Levinas's transformation of Hermann Cohen
- The possibility of premodern rationalism : Strauss's transformation of Hermann Cohen
- Against utopia : law and its limits
- Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics
- Politics and hermeneutics : Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources
- Revelation and commandment : Strauss, Levinas, and the theologico-political predicament.