Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn by Ethan Kleinberg - 9781503629592

Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic TurnPhilosophy and Jewish Thought\nAuthor(s): Ethan Kleinberg\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: Stanford University Press, United States\nImprint: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9781503629592, 978-1503629592\nSynopsis\nIn this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas's Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas's Talmudic lessons.\n\n Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents between \""God on Our Side\"" and \""God on God's Side\"" to provide two discrete and at times conflicting approaches to Levinas's Talmudic readings. One is historically situated and argued from \""our side\"" while the other uses Levinas's Talmudic readings themselves to approach the issues as timeless and derived from \""God on God's own side.\"" Bringin.