The Exorbitant: Emmanuel Levinas Between Jews and Christians
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We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and theology. We begin to listen well to Levinas when we hear him inviting us to break completely with the pagan world in which the gods are simply the highest beings in the cosmos and learn to practice an adult religion in which God is outside cosmology...
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:0823230163
ISBN13:9780823230167
Release Date:January 2010
Publisher:Fordham University Press
Length:304 Pages
Weight:1.00 lbs.
Dimensions:1.0" x 6.0" x 8.9"
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