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Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference »

Book cover image of Levinas and Buber: Dialogue and Difference by Matthew Calarco

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)

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Author Biography: Matthew Calarco

Book Synopsis

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

Table of Contents

Introduction1
1Samuel and Agag29
2On Buber32
3Buber and Levinas : philosophical reflections on an opposition37
4Affection and the transcendental dialogical personalism of Buber and Levinas49
5"Failure of communication" as a surplus : dialogue and lack of dialogue between Buber and Levinas65
6Ethics and the place of the other98
7Martin Buber and Emmanuel Levinas : an ethical query116
8Buber's and Levinas's attitudes toward Judaism133
9Revelation here and beyond : Buber and Levinas on the Bible157
10Reading Torah : the discontinuity of tradition179
11Beyond the "eclipse of God" : the Shoah in the Jewish thought of Buber and Levinas203
12Reciprocity and the height of God : a defense of Buber against Levinas226
13Buber and Levinas - and Heidegger235
14The retrieval of humanism in Buber and Levinas250
15Face-to-face with the other animal?262

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