Taught by
Professor David Kleinberg-Levin, Mondays at 8:30PM (May 5- June 2) Emmanuel Levinas, born in Lithuania in 1906, fought in the Jewish resistance movement during the Second World War. He was captured and imprisoned, but escaped. After the war, he lived and taught in Paris. Today, several years after his death, he remains one of this century's major Jewish philosophers and indeed, as one who carried forward in a unique way the phenomenological recognition of lived experience, he is today one of the most influential philosophers within the European Continental tradition. Proposing a radically new way to approach ethics, he is an indispensable resource for all European philosophers seriously addressing ethical questions. In this class, we will explore selected essays in his monumental work "Difficult Freedom: Essays in Judaism," with a view toward gaining a better understanding of the contributions of this seminal thinker's world view. Some advance reading required.
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