Leo Strauss And Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy And The Politics Of Revelation
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\ Leora Batnitzky
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Cambridge ; New York
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: Cambridge University Press
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, 2006
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xxii, 280 p.
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Code E.Book: 10730
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Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem respond -- "Freedom depends upon its bondage" : the shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig -- An irrationalist rationalism : Levinas's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- The possibility of premodern rationalism : Strauss's transformation of Hermann Cohen -- Against utopia : law and its limits -- Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics -- Politics and hermeneutics : Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources -- Revelation and commandment : Strauss, Levinas, and the theologico-political predicament.