Out of Control: Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas

by Richard A. Cohen

Book Overview

After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza's answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas's is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontations between them in ethics, politics, science, and religion.

Spinoza is the control, the inexorable defensive logic of administrative rationality,...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 1438461097
• ISBN13: 9781438461090
• Release Date: June 2016
• Publisher: State University of New York Press
• Length: 370 Pages
• Weight: 1.40 lbs.
• Dimensions: 1.1" x 6.1" x 9.1"