Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

Claire Elise Katz is Associate Professor of Philosophy and Women's Studies at Texas A&M University. She is author of Levinas, Judaism, and the Feminine (IUP, 2003).

"Claire Elise Katz makes great strides in resolving our current cultural war over the role of religion in the public sphere. By turning to Levinas's writings on education, she shows how religion as a cultural form can engender ethical agents in a way that standard philosophical accounts fail to do."—Martin Kavka, Florida State University"[I]n addition to its excellent readings of many texts and its helpful contextualizing of Levinas's project, Katz's book is a very good one indeed and one to be highly recommended."—AJS REVIEW"The great achievement of Claire Katz's new book, Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism, is to explain the meaning of Levinas's ethics in a way that makes it relevant for everyday life without either simplifying it or resorting to the paraphrase that is so often the pitfall of Levinas scholarship. . . . Katz's book succeeds in transmitting a deep sense of how Levinas's philosophy is important and relevant in a world in crisis."—Notre Dame Philosophical Reviews

• PrefaceAcknowledgementsList of AbbreviationsIntroduction1. The Limits of the Humanities2. Solitary Men3. The Crisis of Humanism4. Before Phenomenology5. The Promise of Jewish Education 6. Teaching, Fecundity, Responsibility7. Humanism FoundNotesBibliographyIndex