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The Holy Text and Violence: Levinas and Fundamentalism

Poorthuis,Marcel
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Levinas'rejection of a historical ciritcal approach to sacred texts as well as his depreciation of Spinoza's view of the Bible might bring him close to fundamentalism. A thorough analysis is necessary to demonstrate essential differences. Levinas'rejection of a historical ciritcal approach to sacred texts as well as his depreciation of Spinoza's view of the Bible might bring him close to fundamentalism. A thorough analysis is necessary to demonstrate essential differences. In a way Levinas' attitude to the Talmud comes close to Heidegger's attitude towards presocratic philosophy.
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2015
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Brill Academic Publishers
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hermeneutics, transcendence, fundamentalism
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Poorthuis, M 2015, The Holy Text and Violence : Levinas and Fundamentalism. in A Breitlin, C Bremmers & A Cools (eds), Debating Levinas' legacy. Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology, Brill Academic Publishers, Leiden, pp. 143-162.
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https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14602/20100
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