Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn : philosophy and Jewish thought /

Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic turn : philosophy and Jewish thought /

"In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talm...

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Main Author: Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967- (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, [2021]
Series:Cultural memory in the present.
Subjects:
Lévinas, Emmanuel > Religion.
Talmud > Criticism, interpretation, etc. > History.
Talmud > Critique, interprétation, etc. > Histoire.
Talmud
1900-1999
Jewish philosophy > 20th century.
Criticism, interpretation, etc.
History
Online Access:CONNECT
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction : God on our side/God on God's own side
  • Being-Jewish, from Vilna to Paris : the temptation of temptation (Shabbath pp.88a and 88b)
  • The Alliance israélite universelle, Shushani, and the École normale israélite universelle : old as the world (Sanhedrin, pp. 36b-37a)
  • The Talmudic lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française : beyond memory (Berakhot, 12b-13a)
  • Hebrew into Greek : translation and exemplarism : contempt for the Torah as idolatry (Sanhedrin, 99a and 99b)
  • Conclusion : constitutive dissymmetry

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