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This year's issue of the journal devoted to Lithuanian-born French philosopher Immanuel Levinas (1906-95) begins with his essay The Meaning of Religious Practice, in a translation reprinted from a 2005 issue of Modern Judaism. Other topics include his early Jewish writings, his reading of Husserl, a critical appreciation of his analysis in Existence and Existents, plurality and transcendence with and after Marcel, locating alterity in the Il y a, the keenness of hope, and a Levinasian meditation on Shakespeare's Macbeth. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)
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Dedicated to scholarly work on the innovations and implications of the thought of Emmanuel Levinas, Levinas Studies includes insightful and inspiring essays by well-known and newer Levinas scholars. Under the general editorship of Jeffrey Bloechl, one volume of original essays appears each year.This fifth volume of Levinas Studies is devoted to the early writings of Levinas (1930-1949) and will be especially useful for those readers who wish to understand the direction in which Levinas's thinking was heading leading up to and immediately after World War II. Most notably, it contains a translation of Levinas's little-known early article on Judaism, "The Meaning of Religious Practice" (1937), which offers a vision of religious practice that is a forerunner of his famous ethics of the Other.
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