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Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation by Batnitzky, Leora Faye is a nonfiction available to read on EtoBox.

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Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and two extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerably, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs. Strauss has influenced political theorists and policy makers on the right while Levinas has been championed in the humanities by different cadres associated with postmodernist thought. In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas: Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, first published in 2006, Leora Batnitzky brings together these two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that they often had the same philosophical sources and their projects had many formal parallels. While such a comparison is valuable in itself for better understanding each figure, it also raises profound questions in the debate on the definitions of 'religion', suggesting ways that religion makes claims on both philosophy and politics.

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It is typically read by self-directed learners exploring a subject in depth.

Common subject areas: history, science, philosophy, social sciences.

Author
Batnitzky, Leora Faye
Publisher
Cambridge University Press (Virtual Publishing)
Published
2006
Language
EN
ISBN
9780521861564
Category
nonfiction
Subjects
Philosophy, Science, Religion

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