Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

Author/Contributor(s):	Katz, Claire Elise
Publisher:	Indiana University Press
Date:	12/11/2012
Binding:	Paperback
Condition:	NEW

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 Levinas's 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.