Elevations: The Height of the Good in Rosenzweig and Levinas

by Richard A. Cohen

Book Overview

Elevations is a series of closely related essays on the ground-breaking philosophical and theological work of Emmanuel Levinas and Franz Rosenzweig, two of the twentieth century's most important Jewish philosophers. Focusing on the concept of transcendence, Richard A. Cohen shows that Rosenzweig and Levinas join the wisdom of revealed religions to the work of traditional philosophers to create a philosophy charged with the tasks of ethics and...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0226112756
• ISBN13: 9780226112756
• Release Date: December 1994
• Publisher: University of Chicago Press
• Length: 364 Pages
• Weight: 1.10 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 6.0" x 8.9"