Emmanuel Levinas's Talmudic Turn

In this rich intellectual history of the French-Jewish philosopher Emmanuel Levinas''s Talmudic lectures in Paris, Ethan Kleinberg addresses Levinas''s Jewish life and its relation to his philosophical writings while making an argument for the role and importance of Levinas''s Talmudic lessons.

Pairing each chapter with a related Talmudic lecture, Kleinberg uses the distinction Levinas presents bet...