Suchergebnisse

I. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche and the body -- II. Prophetic speech in Levinas and Spinoza (and Maimonides) -- III. Levinas and Spinoza: to love God for nothing -- IV. Levinas and Spinoza: justice and the state -- V. Spinoza's Prince: for whom is the theological-political treatise written? VI. Levinas on Spinoza's misunderstanding of Judaism -- VII. Thinking least about death: mortality and morality in Spinoza, Heidegger and Levinas -- VIII. Spleen: Spinoza's babies, fools and madmen

I. Levinas, Spinozism, Nietzsche and the body -- II. Prophetic speech in Levinas and Spinoza (and Maimonides) -- III. Levinas and Spinoza: to love God for nothing -- IV. Levinas and Spinoza: justice and the state -- V. Spinoza's Prince: for whom is the theological-political treatise written? VI. Levinas on Spinoza's misunderstanding of Judaism -- VII. Thinking least about death: mortality and morality in Spinoza, Heidegger and Levinas -- VIII. Spleen: Spinoza's babies, fools and madmen

The end of the world : Heidegger, Kant, and Levinas -- Being, time, and the ethical body -- Thinking least about death-contra Heidegger -- Buber and Levinas, and Heidegger -- Levinas, Plato, and ethical exegesis -- Uncovering the "difficult universality" of the face-to-face -- Some notes on the title of Levinas's Totality and infinity and its first sentence -- Choosing and the chosen : Levinas and Sartre -- Some reflections on Levinas and Shakespeare -- Defending Levinas : an interview with Raymond Lai -- Levinas, Judaism, and the primacy of the ethical -- Emmanuel Levinas : philosopher and Jew -- Singularity : the universality of Jewish particularism-Benamozegh and Levinas -- Levinas and Rosenzweig : proximities and distances -- Virtue embodied : Brit mila, desire, and Levinas -- Against theology or "the devotion of a theology without theodicy" -- Theodicy after the Shoah : Levinas on suffering and evil

The vast majority of books on Buddhism describe the Buddha using the word enlightened, rather than awakened. This bias has resulted in Buddhism becoming generally perceived as the eponymous religion of enlightenment. Beyond Enlightenment is a sophisticated study of some of the underlying assumptions involved in the study of Buddhism (especially, but not exclusively, in the West). It investigates the tendency of most scholars to ground their study of Buddhism in these particular assumptions about the Buddha's enlightenment and a particular understanding of religion, which is traced back through Western orientalists to the Enlightenment and the Protestant Reformation. Placing a distinct emphasis on Indian Buddhism, Richard Cohen adeptly creates a work that will appeal to those with an interest in Buddhism and India and also scholars of religion and history.

This book expands upon Emmanuel Levinas' work to explore his use of 'ethical exegesis', opening up broader questions of interpretation in ethical thinking. Levinas' views of philosophy are considered in contrast to alternative contemporary approaches, such as those found in modern science, psychology, Nietzsche, Freud, Husserl, Heidegger, Sartre and Derrida

Bris mila, like all Jewish spirituality, signifies as a sanctification/humanization of vital energies, in this case of the male gendered body, on the model of Talmudic hermeneutics, exegesis, commentary, i.e., respecting the transcendence and integral unity of future and past, public and private, spirit and letter, holy and mundane.