From Spinoza to Lévinas
Title | From Spinoza to Lévinas PDF eBook |
Author | Zeev Levy |
Publisher | Peter Lang |
Pages | 202 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9781433106972 |
Pt. I. Politics and hermeneutics in the philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- Tolerance, liberty and equality -- Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writings -- Pt. II. Philosophical hermeneutics -- Biblical hermeneutics : J.G. Herder and J.W. von Goethe -- Hermeneutics and demythologization : Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and tradition -- Pt. III. Ethics and contemporary Jewish thought -- Death, dying, body, and soul -- Does it make sense to speak about Jewish ethics? -- Pt. IV. Lévinas, politics, and contemporary Jewish thought -- Lévinas on state, revolution, and utopia -- Lévinas on secularization -- Lévinas on death and hope.
Out of Control
Title | Out of Control PDF eBook |
Author | Richard A. Cohen |
Publisher | State University of New York Press |
Pages | 372 |
Release | 2016-05-09 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438461119 |
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, where freedom is equated to necessity—a seventeenth-century glimpse of Orwellian doublespeak and Big Brother. Levinas is the way out: transcendence not of God, being, and logic but of the other person experienced as moral obligation. To alleviate the suffering of others—nothing is more important! Spinoza wagers everything on mathematical truth, discarding the rest as ignorance and illusion; for Levinas, nothing surpasses the priorities of morality and justice, to create a world in which humans can be human and not numbers or consumers, drudges or robots. Situating these two thinkers in today's context, Out of Control responds to the fear of dehumanization in a world flattened by the alliance of positivism and plutocracy. It offers a nonideological ethical alternative, a way out and up, in the nobility of one human being helping another, and the solidarity that moves from morality to justice.
From Spinoza to Lévinas
Title | From Spinoza to Lévinas PDF eBook |
Author | Zeev Levy |
Publisher | |
Pages | 181 |
Release | 2009 |
Genre | Jewish philosophy |
ISBN | 9781453904589 |
Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love
Title | Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love PDF eBook |
Author | Michael Strawser |
Publisher | Rowman & Littlefield |
Pages | 215 |
Release | 2021-08-27 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1793628602 |
In Spinoza and the Philosophy of Love, Michael Strawser provides a new reading of Spinoza as a philosopher of love, and one who centers his thought on an ethically qualified conception of noble love. Strawser examines the threefold conception of love found in Spinoza’s Ethics and argues that what is most important for Spinoza’s philosophy is a unified conception of love centered on nobility (amor sive generositas). This active conception of love can conquer hatred and bring people together. Situating Spinoza’s philosophy of love within both Jewish and Western philosophical traditions, Strawser investigates questions in the philosophy of love together with Spinoza and thinkers such as Saadia Gaon, Maimonides, Leone Ebreo, Tullia d’Aragona, and René Descartes. He shows how Spinoza deepens our understanding of amorous perfectionism and how this reading of Spinoza’s philosophy of love serves as both a corrective to problematic readings, such as those found in Isaac Bashevis Singer and Emmanuel Levinas, and a counter to speciesism. With careful examination of Spinoza’s writings, Strawser demonstrates that the goal of his philosophy is best understood as the love of other people who are to be helped and united with in friendship. Ultimately, Spinoza’s philosophy of love calls for collective nobility.
Entre Nous
Title | Entre Nous PDF eBook |
Author | Emmanuel Levinas |
Publisher | A&C Black |
Pages | 236 |
Release | 2006-06-13 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 9780826490797 |
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) was a leading philosopher and Talmudic commentator. This book is a major collection of essays representing the culmination of Levinas's philosophy. It gathers his important work and reveals the development of his thought. It looks at issues of suffering, love, religion, culture, justice, human rights, and legal theory.
Between Levinas and Heidegger
Title | Between Levinas and Heidegger PDF eBook |
Author | John E. Drabinski |
Publisher | SUNY Press |
Pages | 278 |
Release | 2014-08-25 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 1438452578 |
Investigates the philosophical relationship between Levinas and Heidegger in a nonpolemical context, engaging some of philosophys most pressing issues. Although both Levinas and Heidegger drew inspiration from Edmund Husserls phenomenological method and helped pave the way toward the post-structuralist movement of the late twentieth century, very little scholarly attention has been paid to the relation of these two thinkers. There are plenty of simpleand accurateoppositions and juxtapositions: French and German, ethics and ontology, and so on. But there is also a critical intersection between Levinas and Heidegger on some of the most fundamental philosophical questions: What does it mean to be, to think, and to act in late modern life and culture? How do our conceptions of subjectivity, time, and history both reflect the condition of this historical moment and open up possibilities for critique, resistance, and transformation? The contributors to this volume take up these questions by engaging the ideas of Levinas and Heidegger relating to issues of power, violence, secularization, history, language, time, death, sacrifice, responsibility, memory, and the boundary between the human and humanism.
The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas
Title | The Ethics of Emmanuel Levinas PDF eBook |
Author | Diane Perpich |
Publisher | Stanford University Press |
Pages | 253 |
Release | 2008 |
Genre | Philosophy |
ISBN | 0804759421 |
This work offers a new interpretation of what Levinas means when he says that we are infinitely responsible to the other person.