Levinas and the philosophy of religion - Jeffrey L. Kosky

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"For readers who suspect there is no place for religion and morality in postmodern philosophy, Jeffrey L. Kosky suggests otherwise in this interpretation of the ethical and religious dimensions of Levinas's thought. Placing Levinas in relation to Hegel and Nietzsche, Husserl and Heidegger, Derrida and Marion, Kosky develops religious themes found in Levinas's work and offers a way to think and speak about ethics and morality within the horizons of contemporary philosophy of religion.

Kosky embraces the entire scope of Levinas's writings from Totality and Infinity to Otherwise than Being, contrasting Levinas's early religious and moral thought with that of his later works while exploring the nature of phenomenological reduction, the relation of religion and philosophy, the question of whether Levinas can be considered a Jewish thinker, and the religious and theological import of Levinas's phenomenology.

Kosky stresses that Levinas is first and foremost a phenomenologist and that the relationship between religion...
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2001Uitgever: Indiana University Press233 paginasISBN-10: 0253339251ISBN-13: 9780253339256

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