The Stirrings of a Stubborn and Difficult Freedom Assimilation, Education, and Levinas's Crisis of Humanism Academic Article uri icon

abstract

  • In several places, Levinas identifies the problem that concerns him as acrisis of humanism.This problem finds its seeds in modernity but comes to fruition in the inhumanities of the 20thcentury. Like his philosophical predecessors, Levinas offers an educational model as a solution to a problem he has identified.But this model--Jewish educationis uniquely different from those offered by those who came before him.This essay examines Levinass interest in Jewish education as a solution to this crisis in humanism and considers what the implications of this solution are for his project as a whole.

published proceedings

  • JOURNAL OF FRENCH AND FRANCOPHONE PHILOSOPHY

author list (cited authors)

  • Katz, C.

citation count

  • 1

complete list of authors

  • Katz, Claire

publication date

  • January 2008