Nine Talmudic Readings (eBook)

Emmanuel Levinas (Autor)

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2019
351 Seiten
Indiana University Press (Verlag)
9780253040503 (ISBN)

Infos

1. Originally published by IUP in 1990 this translation has maintained steady sales over time, with over 10,000 sold total.

2. Translator Annette Aronowicz has written a new forward for this edition.

3. Aronowicz is a well-established professor of Judaic studies and religious studies and IUP is recognized as a leading university publisher on Continental Philosophy and Jewish Studies.

Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

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These nine masterful readings of the Talmud by the renowned French Jewish philosopher translate Jewish thought into the language of modern times. One of the major continental philosophers of the twentieth century, Emmanuel Levinas was also an important Talmudic commentator. Between 1963 and 1975, he delivered an enlightening and influential series of commentaries at the annual Talmudic colloquia of a group of French Jewish intellectuals in Paris. In this collection, Levinas applies a hermeneutic that simultaneously allows the classic Jewish texts to shed light on contemporary problems and lets modern problems illuminate the texts. Besides being quintessential illustrations of the art of reading, the essays express the deeply ethical vision of the human condition that makes Levinas one of the most important thinkers of our time.

Autor

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Annette Aronowicz is the Robert F. and Patricia G. Ross Weis Professor of Judaic Studies and Professor of Religious Studies at Franklin and Marshall College. She is author of Freedom from Ideology: Secrecy in Modern Expressions and Jews and Christians on Time and Eternity: Charles Pguy's Portrait of Bernard-Lazare.

Inhalt

Levinas's Talmudic Readings: Thirty Years Later / Annette Aronowicz

Acknowledgments

Translator's Introduction / Annette Aronowicz

Four Talmudic Readings

Introduction

Toward the Other

The Temptation of Temptation

Promised Land or Permitted Land

"As Old as the World?"

From the Sacred to the Holy: Five New Talmudic Readings

Preface

Judaism and Revolution

The Youth of Israel

Desacralization and Disenchantment

And God Created Woman

Damages Due to Fire

Glossary

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 12.3.2021
• Einführung: Annette Aronowicz
• Verlagsort: Bloomington
• Sprache: englisch
• Maße: 150 x 150 mm
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Religion / Theologie ► Judentum
• Schlagworte: Annette Aronowicz • Aronowicz • classic text • commentaries • Continental Philosophy • Emmanuel Levinas • Hermeneutic • hermeneutics • Human Condition • Indiana University Press • IUP • IU Press • Jewish philosophers • Jewish philosophy • Jewish text • Jewish texts • Lectures • Levinas • minuit • Nine Talmudic Readings • nouvelles • Philosophy • promised land • sacred reading • sacred text • saintl sacre • Talmud • Talmudic • Talmudiques • temptation • Translation
• ISBN-13: 9780253040503 / 9780253040503