A Covenant of Creatures: Levinas's Philosophy of Judaism

by Michael Fagenblat

Book Overview

"I am not a particularly Jewish thinker," said Emmanuel Levinas, "I am just a thinker." This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas's philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called "ethics" is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0804768706
• ISBN13: 9780804768702
• Release Date: June 2010
• Publisher: Stanford University Press
• Length: 320 Pages
• Weight: 0.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.9" x 8.9"