“This volume goes to the heart of Levinas’s profoundly original and thus challenging ethics, clarifying and highlighting its essentials without conflation, simplification, or superficial criticism, and accenting the all-important social transcendence or ‘prophecy’ of goodness that makes for the humanity of the human.” —Richard A. Cohen, author of Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion
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“Philosophy as Prophecy accomplishes a critical task. Bringing together Levinas’s philosophical writings and his writings on Judaism, Jeffrey Bloechl offers a fresh interpretation of Levinas’s phenomenology. Using his expertise in psychoanalysis, philosophy, and religious studies, Bloechl’s approach to phenomenology addresses some of the fundamental questions in Levinas’s corpus. This book is a must read for everyone working in Levinas scholarship, religious studies, and contemporary continental philosophy.” —Claire Katz, author of Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism— -