Ethics, Exegesis and Philosophy: Interpretation after Levinas

di Richard A. Cohen (Autore)

Cambridge University Press, 2007

The reputation and influence of Emmanuel Levinas (1906-96) has grown powerfully. Well known in France in his lifetime, he has since his death become widely regarded as a major European moral philosopher profoundly shaped by his Jewish background. A pupil of Husserl and Heidegger, Levinas pioneered new forms of exegesis with his post-modern readings of the Talmud, and as an ethicist brought together religious and non-religious, Jewish and non-Jewish traditions of contemporary thought. Richard A. Cohen has written a book which uses Levinas' work as its base but goes on to explore broader questions of interpretation in the context of text-based ethical thinking. Levinas' reorientation of philosophy is considered in critical contrast to alternative contemporary approaches such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre, Merleau-Ponty, Derrida and Ricoeur. Cohen explores a manner of philosophizing which he terms 'ethical exegesis'.

• Autore: Richard A. Cohen
• Editore: Cambridge University Press
• Anno: 2007
• Rilegatura: Paperback / softback
• Pagine: 372 p.
• Dimensioni: 215 x 140 mm
• Peso: 492 gr.
• EAN: 9780521047166

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