Authors: Matthew Calarco (Editor), Peter Atterton (Editor), Maurice Friedman (Editor), Stephan Strasser (Contribution by), Andrew Tallon
ISBN-13: 9780820703510, ISBN-10: 0820703516
Format: Paperback
Publisher: Duquesne University Press
Date Published: November 2004
Edition: (Non-applicable)
Emmanuel Levinas (1906-95) and Martin Buber (1878-1965) were friends and associates during their lives, devoting several studies to the other and engaging in constant dialogue. Here, scholars of philosophy, religion, and Jewish studies from North America, Europe, and Israel resume their dialogue. The goal is not to assimilate their respective views to each other but to point out the differences, which the two philosophers agreed were necessary for true dialogue. Annotation ©2004 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR
Introduction | 1 | |
1 | Samuel and Agag | 29 |
2 | On Buber | 32 |
3 | Buber and Levinas : philosophical reflections on an opposition | 37 |
4 | Affection and the transcendental dialogical personalism of Buber and Levinas | 49 |
5 | "Failure of communication" as a surplus : dialogue and lack of dialogue between Buber and Levinas | 65 |
6 | Ethics and the place of the other | 98 |
7 | Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas : an ethical query | 116 |
8 | Buber's and Levinas's attitudes toward Judaism | 133 |
9 | Revelation here and beyond : Buber and Levinas on the Bible | 157 |
10 | Reading Torah : the discontinuity of tradition | 179 |
11 | Beyond the "eclipse of God" : the Shoah in the Jewish thought of Buber and Levinas | 203 |
12 | Reciprocity and the height of God : a defense of Buber against Levinas | 226 |
13 | Buber and Levinas - and Heidegger | 235 |
14 | The retrieval of humanism in Buber and Levinas | 250 |
15 | Face-to-face with the other animal? | 262 |