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Publisher:
Collaborators:
  • University of Haifa
Year:
2006
Catalog number :
45-171027
ISBN:
965-493-268-7
Pages:
272
Language:
Weight:
360 gr.
Cover:
paperback

Hermeneutics in Modern Jewish Thought

Synopsis

This book deals with the philosophical problems of the textual commentaries written by Jewish philosophers from Moses Mendelssohn in the 19th Century to Jacques Derrida and Emmanuel Levinas in the Second half of the 20th Century, examining among others the place of tradition and mythology in modern Jewish philosophy and the contribution of Jacques' Derridas' deconstruction and Emmanuel Levinas' philosophy.