Levinasian Meditations: Ethics, Philosophy, and Religion

400 pages | cloth | ISBN: 978-0-8207-0432-6 Reviews: “Cohen exhibits a profound knowledge of Levinas's philosophy, as well as of its implications and relevance to other areas of philosophy, religion and ethics. To his credit, Cohen unabashedly and unflinchingly defends the philosophy of Levinas—with full recognition of this proclivity. Cohen's book is an extremely well-researched and articulated defense of Levinas on a multitude of topics.” — Symposium “Cohen's book constitutes a compelling defense of Levinas against a variety of criticisms and opposing views. It is a thorough and often cogent explication of the grandiosity of Levinas's philosophical accomplishments. . .” — Symposium “Levinasian Meditations, in its structure, embodies a claim frequently found in scholarship on Levinas, namely that Judaism and its other-centered ethics, through its countercultural stance, can play a role in saving the modern West from the historical evils that have resulted from the West's tendency eit