Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism
, by Katz, Claire EliseNote: Supplemental materials are not guaranteed with Rental or Used book purchases.
- ISBN: 9780253007650 | 0253007658
- Cover: Paperback
- Copyright: 12/11/2012
Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education, and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines his "Crisis of Humanism," which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.