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Robert Gibbs radically revises standard interpretations of the two key figures of modern Jewish philosophy: Franz Rosenzweig, author of the "Star of Redemption", and Emmanuel Levinas, a major voice in contemporary intellectual life, who has inspired such thinkers as Derrida, Lyotard, Irigaray, and Blachot. Rosenzweig and Levinas thought in relation to different philosophical schools and wrote in disparate styles. Their personal relations to Judaism and to Christianity were markedly dissimilar. Finally, they were divided by history: Rosenzweig's premature death occurred before the advent of Nazism, and Levinas's life has been "dominated by the presentiment and memory of the Nazi horror". To Gibbs however, the two thinkers possess basic affinities with each other. Correlating traditional Jewish themes in social ethics with postmodern philosophy, Rosenzweig and Levinas not only discover new resonances in Jewish thought but also reorient philosophy itself, so that it takes its bearing from the individual's unavoidable responsibility for others. Levinas, who was the first expositor in France of Husserl, Heidegger, and the phenomenological method, has been read as a philosopher, with little concern for his Jewish thought, and Rosenzweig has been seen exclusively as an existentialist theologian. Gibbs maintains, on the other hand, that Rosenzweig strives to elucidate universally accessible concepts and social practices and that Levinas is a Jewish thinker in exactly the same sense. Through this argument, the book offers important insights into how philosophy is continually being altered by its encounter with other traditions.



About the Author :
Robert Gibbs is Assistant Professor of Religion at Princeton University.

Review :
"Winner of the 1994 National Jewish Honor Book in Jewish Thought" "Both as a study of its two major figures and as a contribution to the development of Jewish philosophy in a postmodern context, this is a stimulating and illuminating study."---Merold Westphal, International Philosophical Quarterly "This ambitious work seeks to reclassify both Rosenzweig and Levinas ... through wide-ranging and rather novel use of the concept of `correlation,' meaning here not only correlation of themes in the writings of the two authors but also and more importantly correlation between the great enterprises of Judaism and philosophy; each of these has historically been enriched by the other and both continue to need such enrichment today." "Clear in expression and design. . . . Correlations clearly advances our understanding of modern Jewish philosophy." "This book is about ... two of the most important Jewish philosophers of the twentieth century.... The result is provocative and thoughtful, showing serious scholarship and deep understanding."


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780691029641
  • Publisher: Princeton University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Princeton University Press
  • Height: 254 mm
  • No of Pages: 293
  • Weight: 369 gr
  • ISBN-10: 0691029644
  • Publisher Date: 23 Oct 1994
  • Binding: Paperback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: Y
  • Width: 197 mm


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