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De Dieu qui vient a l’idee (Of God who comes to mind) By: Emmanuel Levinas <http://www.magnes-press.com/Authors/Emmanuel+Levinas.aspx?name=Emmanuel+Levinas> Edited by: Joelle Hansel <http://www.magnes-press.com/Authors/Joelle+Hansel.aspx?name=Joelle+Hansel> Translation: RAMA AYALON <http://www.magnes-press.com/Authors/RAMA+AYALON.aspx?name=RAMA+AYALON> “For my dear grandson, David, this book in which he will not always recognize – and not incorrectly - the God of his fathers”: Levinas’ dedication encapsulates the issues he addresses in the thirteenth essays collected in De Dieu qui vient à l’idée (Of God who comes to mind). In contrast with a whole tradition of Jewish and Christian philosophy (Juda Halevi, Blaise Pascal), Levinas’ God is nor “The God of the philosophers”, neither “the God of Abraham, Isaac and Jacob”. “God” is not an object of thought or of faith, He cannot be approached nor by rational knowledge, neither through dialogue, or religious and mystical experience. Basing himself on Husserl’s phenomenology as well as on Talmudic tradition and on the writings of Rabbi Haim Voloziner, Levinas focuses on the ethical meaning encapsulated in the word “God”. Despite his quasi absence, “God” - or the absolute transcendence signified by this word - is never indifferent to the “here below”, he is never detached from “terrestrial existence and from human society”, from the place where infinite responsibility for the other is incumbent on me. For more info please press here <http://www.magnes-press.com/Book/De+Dieu+qui+vient+a+l%E2%80%99idee.aspx?name=De+Dieu+qui+vient+a+l%E2%80%99idee&code=45-321088&docNo=1&qid=1> Price: $ 26.70 / 80.10 ₪ regards, Celestina Levant Sales and Marketing abroad Magnes Press [email protected] www.magnes-press.com Tel: 972-2-6584780 Fax: 972-2-5633370
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