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100			_aBatnitzky, Leora Faye
245			_aLeo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : philosophy and the politics of revelation
260			_bCambridge University Press, _c2006 _aCambridge :
300			_axxii, 280 p. ; _c23 cm
365			_b37.99 _cGBP _d105.70
504			_aIncludes bibliographical references and index.
520			_aLeo 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. "Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas, two twentieth-century Jewish philosophers and extremely provocative thinkers whose reputations have grown considerable over the last twenty years, are rarely studied together. This is due to the disparate interests of many of their intellectual heirs." "In Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas : Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation, 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.
650			_aPhilosophical skepticism
650			_aJewish law
650			_aEsotericism
650			_aCultural zionism
650			_aChristian
650			_aAtheism
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