Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn: Philosophy and Jewish Thought PDF
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EMMANUEL LEVINAS’S TALMUDIC TURN This page intentionally left blank Cultural Memory in the Present Hent de Vries, Editor This page intentionally left blank E M M A N U E L L E V I N A S ’ S TA L M U D I C T U R N Philosophy and Jewish Thought Ethan Kleinberg Stanford University Press Stanford, California Stanford University Press Stanford, California ©2021 by Ethan Kleinberg. All rights reserved. No part of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, electronic or mechanical, including photocopying and recording, or in any information storage or retrieval system without the prior written permission of Stanford University Press. Printed in the United States of America on acid- free, archival- quality paper Library of Congress Cataloging- in- Publication Data Names: Kleinberg, Ethan, 1967– author. Title: Emmanuel Levinas’s Talmudic turn : philosophy and Jewish thought / Ethan Kleinberg. Other titles: Cultural memory in the present. Description: Stanford, California : Stanford University Press, 2021. | Series: Cultural memory in the present | Includes bibliographical references and index. Identifiers: LCCN 2021005589 (print) | LCCN 2021005590 (ebook) | ISBN 9781503629448 (cloth) | ISBN 9781503629592 (paperback) | ISBN 9781503629608 (ebook) Subjects: LCSH: Lévinas, Emmanuel—Religion. | Talmud—Criticism, interpretation, etc.—History. | Jewish philosophy—20th century. Classification: LCC B2430.L484 K57 2021 (print) | LCC B2430.L484 (ebook) | DDC 296.1/206—dc23 LC record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021005589 LC ebook record available at https://lccn.loc.gov/2021005590 Text and cover design by Kevin Barrett Kane Typeset at Stanford University Press in 11/14.4 Adobe Garamond Pro In memory of Hayden White This page intentionally left blank Contents Acknowledgments xi List of Abbreviations xiii Chronology of Levinas’s Talmudic Lectures at the Colloque des intellectuels juifs de langue française xv Introduction: God on Our Side / God on God’s Own Side 1 1 Being- Jewish, from The Temptation of Temptation Vilna to Paris (Shabbath, 88a and 88b) 15 2 The Alliance Israélite Old as the World Universelle, Shushani, (Sanhedrin, 36b– 37a) and the École Normale Israélite Universelle 53 3 The Talmudic Lectures at Beyond Memory the Colloque des intellectuels (Berakhot, 12b– 13a) juifs de langue française 89 4 Hebrew into Greek: Contempt for the Torah as Idolatry Translation and Exemplarism (Sanhedrin, 99a and 99b) 127 Conclusion: Constitutive Dissymmetry 165 Notes 183 Index 211 This page intentionally left blank
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