Leo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas

Philosophy and the Politics of Revelation

Datos Bibliográficos

ID23774166
AutoresLeora Batnitzky (0000-0001-7461-9066), Leora Faye Batnitzky (Princeton University, autor de correspondencia)
Año2006
Fecha de publicación2006-05-22
Open AccessSí
TipoBOOK
RevistaLeo Strauss and Emmanuel Levinas (SOURCE_BOOK)
EditorialCambridge University Press (PUBLISHER • US)
DOI10.1017/cbo9780511499050
OpenAlexW380026839
Open LibraryOL34443025M
ISBN9780511499050
IdiomaEN
Citas recibidas24
Referencias citadas32

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.

Epistemology · Parallels · Political philosophy · Political science · Politics · Revelation · Theology · Biblical Studies and Interpretation · Law · Philosophy · Philosophy, Ethics, and Existentialism · Violence, Religion, and Philosophy · 20th century · Emmanuel Levinas (1906-1995) · Jewish philosophy · leo Strauss (1899-1973) · modern