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Jewish Messianism and the History of Philosophy »

Authors: Martin Kavka
ISBN-13: 9780521831031, ISBN-10: 0521831032
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Date Published: May 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)

Contests the ancient philosophical opposition between Athens and Jerusalem, looking at the concept of nonbeing.

	Introduction : from Athens to Jerusalem	1
1	The meontological conundrum : Emmanuel Levinas and Emil Fackenheim on the Athens-Jerusalem conflict	18
2	Beyond "beyond being" : nonbeing in Plato and Husserl	42
3	Nonbeing as not-yet-being : meontology in Maimonides and Hermann Cohen	66
4	Nonbeing ensouled, nonbeing embodied : Levinas versus Rosenzweig on the role of the other in messianic anticipation	129
	Conclusion : deepening the roots of the Jewish meontological tradition, or contra the Derridean "Messianic"	193

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