A Covenant of Creatures by Michael Fagenblat HARDBACK 9780804768696

A Covenant of Creatures\nby Michael Fagenblat\nHardback\nEnglish\n\nBrand new copy from BookCurl \u2013 the UK independent online bookseller.\n\n------------------------------\nBook details\n------------------------------\nAuthor: Michael Fagenblat\nTitle: A Covenant of Creatures\nFormat: Hardback\nLanguage: English\nTopic: Phenomenology and Existentialism\nPublisher: Stanford University Press\nISBN-13: 9780804768696\nISBN-10: 0804768692\nRRP: \u00A3116.00\n\n------------------------------\nDescription\n------------------------------\n\nI am not a particularly Jewish thinker, said Emmanuel Levinas, I am just a thinker. This book argues against the idea, affirmed by Levinas himself, that Totality and Infinity and Otherwise Than Being separate philosophy from Judaism. By reading Levinas''s philosophical works through the prism of Judaic texts and ideas, Michael Fagenblat argues that what Levinas called ethics is as much a hermeneutical product wrought from the Judaic heritage as a seri.