Synopses & Reviews
'Leora Batnitzky brings together two seemingly incongruous contemporaries, demonstrating that their projects had many parallels.'
Table of Contents
Part I. Philosophy: 1. Introduction: Strauss and Levinas between Athens and Jerusalem; 2. Levinas's defense of modern philosophy: how Strauss might respond; Part II. Revelation: 3. 'Freedom depends upon its bondage': The shared debt to Franz Rosenzweig; 4. An irrationalist rationalism: Levinas's Transformation of Hermann Cohen; 5. The possibility of pre-modern Rationalism: Strauss's Transformation of Hermann Cohen; Part III. Politics: 6. Against Utopia: law and its limits; 7. Zionism and the discovery of prophetic politics; 8. Politics and Hermeneutics: Strauss's and Levinas's retrieval of classical Jewish sources; 9. Revelation and commandment.