‘The Passion of Israel’: the True Israel According to Levinas, or Judaism ‘as a Category of Being’

Across four decades of writing, Levinas repeatedly referred to the Holocaust as ‘the Passion of Israel at Auschwitz’. This deliberately Christological interpretation of the Holocaust raises questions about the respective roles of Judaism and Christianity in Levinas’ thought and seems at odds with hi...

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Main Author: Fagenblat, Michael (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Netherlands [2015]
In: Sophia
Year: 2015, Volume: 54, Issue: 3, Pages: 297-320
RelBib Classification:BH Judaism
TK Recent history
VA Philosophy
Further subjects:B Heidegger
B Passion
B Formal indication
B Levinas
B Judaism
B Christianity
B Israel
B Shapira (the Piaczeno Rebbe)
B Midrash
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