CHAPTER 8 Theodicy as the Justified Demand of Atheism: Yeshayahu Leibowitz Versus Emmanuel Levinas

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter i
2. Contents vii
3. Preface 1
4. Introduction 5
5. First Gate
6. CHAPTER 1 In Search of Universalism in Judaism: Léon Brunschvicg in the Eyes of Emmanuel Levinas 11
7. CHAPTER 2 Responsibility beyond Heidegger: Ethical Dwelling and the Glory of Bearing Witness 29
8. CHAPTER 3 The Meaning of Dialogue in Levinas’s Philosophy: Levinas Versus Buber 55
9. CHAPTER 4 A Philosopher in the Eye of the Storm: Monsieur Chouchani and Levinas’s “Nameless” Essay 79
10. Second Gate
11. CHAPTER 5 Jewish Identity beyond Halakhah: Levinas Following Buber from Spiritual Renewal to an Ethical and Just Society 103
12. CHAPTER 6 Thinking about Ethical Politics: Gandhi’s Spirituality Versus Levinas’s Philosophy 139
13. Third Gate
14. CHAPTER 7 The Immense House of Postcards: The Idea of Tradition Following Levinas and Derrida 157
15. CHAPTER 8 Theodicy as the Justified Demand of Atheism: Yeshayahu Leibowitz Versus Emmanuel Levinas 181
16. CHAPTER 9 Beyond Forgiveness and the Impossibility of Forgiveness: Levinas Versus Spinoza 209
17. Fourth Gate
18. CHAPTER 10 In the Garden of Postmodern Interpretation with Derrida and Levinas 221
19. CHAPTER 11 When Philosophers Read the Talmud: Levinas, R. Kook, and R. Soloveitchik 245
20. CHAPTER 12 The Phenomenology of Pregnancy, Maternity, and Parenthood in R. Soloveitchik and Levinas 279
21. Appendix to Gate Four 303
22. Instead of Conclusion: An Invitation to Dialogue 305
23. Bibliography 309
24. Index 323