Out of Control
(June 2016)
Confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas Richard A. Cohen - Author
Explores the fundamental confrontations between Spinoza and Levinas in ethics, politics, science, and religion.
After the end of superstitious religion, what is the meaning of the world? Baruch Spinoza’s answer is truth, Emmanuel Levinas’s is goodness: science versus ethics. In Out of Control, Richard A. Cohen brings this debate to life, providing a nuanced exposition of Spinoza and Levinas and the confrontat...(Read More)
Ricoeur as Another
(January 2002)
The Ethics of Subjectivity Richard A. Cohen - Editor James L. Marsh - Editor
Leading scholars address Paul Ricoeur's last major work, Oneself as Another.
This collection of essays by internationally known Paul Ricoeur experts explores the noted philosopher's book, Oneself as Another. Ricoeur's book represents the completion of a decades-long inquiry into the self as he links his earlier studies of symbolism, hermeneutics, phenomenology, the philosophy of language, action ...(Read More)
Ninety-Two Poems and Hymns of Yehuda Halevi
(May 2000)
Franz Rosenzweig - Author Thomas Kovach - Translator Eva Jospe - Translator Gilya Gerda Schmidt - Translator Richard A. Cohen - Edited and with an introduction by
Through translation and commentary, this book presents the final visionary statements of the German-Jewish philosopher Franz Rosenzweig.
This is the first publication in English of Franz Rosenzweig's 1927 translation of and commentaries on ninety-two poems and hymns of the greatest medieval "singer of Zion," Yehuda Halevi (born circa 1080). Franz Rosenzweig (1886-1929) is widely recognized as one of the greatest Jewish philosophers of the...(Read More)
An introduction to the ethical and ontological import of Levinas’ philosophy.
Face to Face with Levinas makes available to American readers the best of recent thought on Emmanuel Levinas. The contributors to this volume are some of the most significant and best-known Levinas scholars in the United States and Europe—Maurice Blanchot, Luce Irigaray, Theodore De Boer, Adriaan Peperzak, Jan de Greef, Alp...(Read More)
