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Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism

Driven Back to the Text: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism


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Most of the scholarship on Levinas treats either Levinas the Philosopher or Levinas the Jew. Driven Back to the Text is one of the first extended studies to treat the two as one: Levinas's philosophy through Judaism, and his Judaism through philosophy. Beginning with a clear introduction to Levinas, the book argues that if, as is accepted, contemporary continental philosophy is heavily influenced by Levinas, and if Levinas is heavily influenced by traditional Jewish texts, then contemporary continental philosophy is at least to some extent influenced by Judaism. At the core of Ajzenstat's work are three examinations of Levinas reading and rewriting. In the first, she suggests that the sequence of biblical references used by Levinas in Otherwise than Being, or Beyond Essence form a subtext of midrash that grounds and illuminates his ideas at every turn. The second proposes that the images that Levinas draws upon in Otherwise and Totality and Infinityof mystics Abraham Abulafia and Isaac Luria images of rupture and healing are central to his thought. And the third offers an interpretation of one of Levinas's talmudic lectures and discusses the way the ideas raised therein form a framework for the ethics of difference he presents in all of his work. Driven Back to the Text demonstrates that what is at issue here is the Holocaust, and how it drives Levinas back to the Bible, the Kabbalah and the Talmud to fight against Hegelianism, totalitarianism and modern progressivist liberalism. This very return suggests a certain hermeneutic one that both brings out of the texts what the readers' society needs to hear as well as one found in the texts; that is, it is an ethical hermeneutic and is part of the texts' ethics.

About the Author :
OONA AJZENSTAT (Eisenstadt) is in the religious studies department at Pomona College. She is the president of the Continental Philosophy in a Jewish Context Group.

Review :
"The book is intellectually engaging and its readings of Levinas lead us into thinking more deeply about fundamental issues in ethical, political, religious and Jewish life. Steven G. Smith, Professor of Philosophy and Religious Studies, Millsaps College; Driven Back to the Text... is a delight to read. Geraldine Finn, Professor of Cultural Studies and Philosophy, Carleton University


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Product Details
  • ISBN-13: 9780820703251
  • Publisher: Duquesne University Press
  • Publisher Imprint: Duquesne University Press
  • Height: 228 mm
  • No of Pages: 387
  • Sub Title: The Premodern Sources of Levinas's Postmodernism
  • Width: 152 mm
  • ISBN-10: 0820703257
  • Publisher Date: 26 Jul 2001
  • Binding: Hardback
  • Language: English
  • Returnable: N
  • Weight: 672 gr


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