Levinas and Camus

by Tal Sessler

This important new book compares the respective oeuvre of two seminal thinkers of the 20th century, Emmanuel Levinas and Albert Camus. Tal Sessler compares their lasting legacies within the specific context of intellectual resistance to totalitarianism and political violence, with particular focus on their respective approaches to the Holocaust and genocide in the 20th century and, correspondingly, the question of theodicy and religious faith...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0826498329
• ISBN13: 9780826498328
• Release Date: April 2008
• Publisher: Continuum
• Length: 128 Pages
• Weight: 0.68 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.4" x 5.5" x 8.5"