Levy, Zeev.

From Spinoza to Lévinas hermeneutical, ethical and political issues in modern and contemporary Jewish philosophy / [electronic resource] : Ze'ev Levy ; edited by Yudit Kornberg Greenberg. - New York : Peter Lang, 2009. - xi, 181 p. - Studies in Judaism, v. 4 1086-5403 ; . - Studies in Judaism ; v. 4. .

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Pt. I. Some modern implications of Spinoza's and Mendelssohn's political and hermeneutical philosophy -- Tolerance, liberty and equality, the concept of freedom according to Spinoza and Mendelssohn -- On spinoza's concept of obedience -- On the motives of Spinoza's and Maimonides' esoteric writing -- On J. G. Herder's and J. W. von Goethe's biblical hermeneutics -- Pt. II. On some topics of modern Jewish philosophy -- Hermeneutics and demythologization Martin Buber and Rudolf Bultmann -- Hermeneutics and tradition -- On death and dying, conceptual changes in the relationship between body and soul in the wake of modern science -- Has it sense to speak about Jewish ethics? -- Pt. III. On some political implications of Emmanuel Lévinas philosophy -- Lévinas reflections on state, revolution and utopia from a Jewish perspective -- Lévinas on secularization in modern society -- Lévinas on death and hope.


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Spinoza, Benedictus de, 1632-1677.
Lévinas, Emmanuel.


Jewish philosophy.
Philosophy, Modern.


Electronic books.

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