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Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism Claire Elise Katz

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism By Claire Elise Katz

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism by Claire Elise Katz


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Delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism Summary

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism by Claire Elise Katz

Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's Crisis of Humanism, which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.

Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism Reviews

[I]n addition to its excellent readings of many texts and its helpful contextualizing of Levinas's project, Katz's book is a very good one indeed and one to be highly recommended.

* AJS REVIEW *

The great achievement of Claire Katz's new book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism, is to explain the meaning of Levinas's ethics in a way that makes it relevant for everyday life without either simplifying it or resorting to the paraphrase that is so often the pitfall of Levinas scholarship. . . . Katz's book succeeds in transmitting a deep sense of how Levinas's philosophy is important and relevant in a world in crisis.

* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *

About Claire Elise Katz

Claire Elise Katz is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Texas A&M University. She is author of Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine (IUP, 2003).

Table of Contents

Preface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Limits of the Humanities
2. Solitary Men
3. The Crisis of Humanism
4. Before Phenomenology
5. The Promise of Jewish Education
6. Teaching, Fecundity, Responsibility
7. Humanism Found
Notes
Bibliography
Index

Additional information

NLS9780253007650
9780253007650
0253007658
Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism by Claire Elise Katz
New
Paperback
Indiana University Press
2012-12-11
246
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