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Book SynopsisDelves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject
Trade Review[I]n addition to its excellent readings of many texts and its helpful contextualizing of Levinas's project, Katz's book is a very good one indeed and one to be highly recommended.
* AJS REVIEW *
The great achievement of Claire Katz's new book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism, is to explain the meaning of Levinas's ethics in a way that makes it relevant for everyday life without either simplifying it or resorting to the paraphrase that is so often the pitfall of Levinas scholarship. . . . Katz's book succeeds in transmitting a deep sense of how Levinas's philosophy is important and relevant in a world in crisis.
* Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews *
Table of ContentsPreface
Acknowledgements
List of Abbreviations
Introduction
1. The Limits of the Humanities
2. Solitary Men
3. The Crisis of Humanism
4. Before Phenomenology
5. The Promise of Jewish Education
6. Teaching, Fecundity, Responsibility
7. Humanism Found
Notes
Bibliography
Index
