Saintly Influence : : Edith Wyschogrod and the Possibilities of Philosophy of Religion / / ed. by Martin Kavka, Eric Boynton.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Fordham University Press Complete eBook-Package Pre-2014
• MitwirkendeR: Altizer, Thomas J. J.,; Bergo, Bettina,; Boynton, Eric,; Caputo, John D.,; Gibbs, Robert,; Hollywood, Amy,; Kavka, Martin,; Kelber, Werner H.,; Ochs, Peter,; Peperzak, Adriaan T.,; Taylor, Mark C .,; Ward, Graham,; Westphal, Merold,; Wolfson, Elliot R.,; Wyschogrod, Edith,
• HerausgeberIn: Boynton, Eric,; Kavka, Martin,
• Place / Publishing House: New York, NY : : Fordham University Press, , [2009]; ©2009
• Year of Publication: 2009
• Language: English
• Series: Perspectives in Continental Philosophy
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (228 p.)

Since the publication of her first book, Emmanuel Levinas: The Problem of Ethical Metaphysics, in 1974-the first book about Levinas published in English-Edith Wyschogrod has been at the forefront of the fields of Continental philosophy and philosophy of religion. Her work has crossed many disciplina...

Table of Contents

• Frontmatter
• Contents
• Preface
• Introduction
• The Uncertainty Principle
• Part I. The Ethical and Transcendence
• The Impossible Possibility of Ethics
• The Empty Suitcase as Rainbow
• Hosting the Stranger and the Pilgrim
• ‘‘God,’’ Gods, God
• Part II. Practices of Influence
• The Name of God in Levinas’s Philosophy
• Kenotic Overflow and Temporal Transcendence
• Tribute to Derrida
• Part III. Channeling History
• Hearing the Voices of the Dead
• Memory and Violence, or Genealogies of Remembering
• The Historian and the Messianic ‘‘Now’’
• Saints and the Heterological Historian
• Part IV. Response
• An Exercise in Upbuilding
• Notes
• Contributors
• Index