From Spinoza to Lévinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy 9781433106972, 9781453904589, 1433106973

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From Spinoza to Lévinas: Hermeneutical, Ethical, and Political Issues in Modern and Contemporary Jewish Philosophy
9781433106972, 9781453904589, 1433106973

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Ze'ev Levy
Yudit Kornberg Greenberg

Table of contents :
Cover
Table of Contents
Editor’s Preface
Acknowledgments
Part I: Politics and Hermeneutics in the Philosophies of Spinoza and Mendelssohn
1. Tolerance, Liberty and Equality
2. Spinoza’s and Maimonides’ Esoteric Writings
Part II: Philosophical Hermeneutics
3. Biblical Hermeneutics—J. G. Herder and J. W. von Goethe
4. Hermeneutics and Demythologization—Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann
5. Hermeneutics and Tradition
Part III: Ethics and Contemporary Jewish Thought
6. Death, Dying, Body, and Soul
7. Does It Make Sense to Speak about Jewish Ethics?
Part IV: Lévinas, Politics, and Contemporary Jewish Thought
8. Lévinas on State, Revolution, and Utopia
9. Lévinas on Secularization
10. Lévinas on Death and Hope
Bibliography
Index

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