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Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) emerged as an influential philosophical voice in the final decades of the twentieth century, and his reputation has continued to flourish and increase in our own day. His central themes - the primacy of the ethical and the core of ethics as our responsibility to and for others - speak to readers from a host of disciplines and perspectives. However, his writings and thought are challenging and difficult. The Oxford Handbook of Levinas contains essays that aim to clarify and engage Levinas and his writings in a number of ways. Some focus on central themes of his work, others on the ways in which he read and was influenced by figures from Plato, Hobbes, Descartes, and Kant to Blanchot, Husserl, Heidegger, and Derrida.

Emil L. Fackenheim, one of the most significant Jewish thinkers of the twentieth century, is best known for his deep and rich engagement with the implications of the Nazi Holocaust on Jewish thought, Christian theology, and philosophy. However, his career as a philosopher and theologian began two decades prior to his first efforts to confront that horrific event. In this book, renowned Fackenheim expert Michael L. Morgan offers the first examination of the full scope of Fackenheim's 60-year career, beyond simply his work on the Holocaust.Fackenheim's Jewish Philosophy explores the most important themes of Fackenheim's philosophical and religious thought and how these remained central, if not always in immutable ways, over his entire career. Morgan also provides insight into Fackenheim's indebtedness to Kant, Hegel, and rabbinic midrash, as well as the changing character of his philosophical "voice." The work concludes with a chapter evaluating Fackenheim's legacy for present and future Jewish philosophy and philosophy more generally.

Emmanuel Levinas conceives of our lives as fundamentally interpersonal and ethical, claiming that our responsibilities to one another should shape all of our actions. While many scholars believe that Levinas failed to develop a robust view of political ethics, Michael L. Morgan argues against understandings of Levinas's thought that find him politically wanting or even antipolitical. Morgan examines Levinas's ethical critique of the political as well as his Jewish writings-including those on Zionism and the founding of the Jewish state-which are controversial reflections of Levinas's political expression. Unlike others who dismiss Levinas as irrelevant or anarchical, Morgan is the first to give extensive treatment to Levinas as a serious social political thinker whose ethics must be understood in terms of its political implications. Morgan reveals Levinas's political commitments to liberalism and democracy as well as his revolutionary conception of human life as deeply interconnected on philosophical, political, and religious grounds

"The fifth edition of Michael L. Morgan's Classics of Moral and Political Theory broadens the scope and increases the versatility of this landmark anthology by offering new selections from Aristotle's Politics, Aquinas' Disputed Questions on Virtue and Treatise on Law, as well as the entirety of Locke's Letter Concerning Toleration, Kant's To Perpetual Peace, and Nietzsche's On the Advantage and Disadvantage of History for Life."--

In memory of Leo Baeck and other Jewish thinkers in dark times: once more, after Auschwitz, Jerusalem / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Hegel and the Jewish problem / Emil L. Fackenheim -- Hegel's ghost: witness and testimony in the philosophy of Emil Fackenheim / Susan E. Shapiro -- Fackenheim on Passover after the Holocaust / Warren Zev Harvey -- Of systems and the systematic labor of thought: Fackenheim as philosopher of his time / Benjamin Pollock -- Fackenheim and Levinas: living and thinking after Auschwitz / Michael L. Morgan -- The Holocaust and the foundations of future philosophy: Fackenheim and Strauss / Solomon Goldberg -- Fackenheim and Strauss / Catherine Zuckert -- Emil Fackenheim: theodicy, and the tikkun of protest / David R. Blumenthal -- The Holocaust is a Christian issue / Richard A. Cohen -- The Holocaust: tragedy for the Jewish people, credibility crisis for Christendom / Franklin H. Littell -- Man or Muselmann: Fackenheim's elaboration on Levi's question / David Patterson -- Emil Fackenheim, Irving Howe, and the fate of secular Jewishness / Edward Alexander -- She'erith Hapleitah: reflections of an historian / Zeev Mankowitz -- Willful murder in the Lublin district of Poland / David Silberklang

Intro -- Spinoza -- Title Page -- Copyright -- Titles of Related Interest Available from Hackett Publishing -- CONTENTS -- Translator's Preface -- Introduction -- Chronology -- Editorial Notes -- ABBREVIATIONS -- Treatise on the Emendation of the Intellect -- Short Treatise on God, Man, and His Well-Being -- Principles of Cartesian Philosophy and Metaphysical Thoughts -- Ethics -- Theological-Political Treatise -- Hebrew Grammar -- Political Treatise -- The Letters -- Index.

Treatise on the emendation of the intellect -- Short treatise on God, man, and his well-being -- Principles of Cartesian philosophy and metaphysical thoughts -- Ethics -- Theological-political treatise -- Hebrew grammar Treatise on the emendation of the intellect -- Short treatise on God, man, and his well-being -- Principles of Cartesian philosophy and metaphysical thoughts