Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education, Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society, for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's "Crisis of Humanism," which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities, and his various identities as a Jewish thinker, philosopher, and educator, Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.

Author: Claire Elise Katz
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Published: 12/11/2012
Pages: 246
Binding Type: Paperback
Weight: 0.85lbs
Size: 9.00h x 5.70w x 0.60d
ISBN: 9780253007650

About the Author

Claire Elise Katz is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Texas A&M University. She is author of Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine (IUP, 2003).