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Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks?
Reflections on Levinas, Translation, and Atheistic Theology
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Paul Franks
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Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant 1
- Levinas Between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology 17
- The Disincarnation of the Word 32
- Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas 52
- Against Theology, or ‘‘The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy’’ 74
- Is the Other My Neighbor? 90
- ‘‘Love Strong as Death’’ 108
- On Levinas’s Gifts to Christian Theology 130
- The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior 150
- Profligacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas 171
- Excess and Desire 188
- The Care of the Other and Substitution 201
- Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks? 211
- Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas 216
- Words of Peace and Truth 230
- Notes 243
- Contributors 301
- Index 307
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series 309
Chapters in this book
- Frontmatter i
- Contents ix
- Acknowledgments xi
- Introduction: Levinas the Exorbitant 1
- Levinas Between German Metaphysics and Christian Theology 17
- The Disincarnation of the Word 32
- Secrecy, Modesty, and the Feminine Kabbalistic Traces in the Thought of Levinas 52
- Against Theology, or ‘‘The Devotion of a Theology Without Theodicy’’ 74
- Is the Other My Neighbor? 90
- ‘‘Love Strong as Death’’ 108
- On Levinas’s Gifts to Christian Theology 130
- The Prevenience and Phenomenality of Grace; or, The Anteriority of the Posterior 150
- Profligacy, Parsimony, and the Ethics of Expenditure in the Philosophy of Levinas 171
- Excess and Desire 188
- The Care of the Other and Substitution 201
- Should Jews and Christians Fear the Gifts of the Greeks? 211
- Thinking about God and God-Talk with Levinas 216
- Words of Peace and Truth 230
- Notes 243
- Contributors 301
- Index 307
- Perspectives in Continental Philosophy Series 309
