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    Levinas Faces Biblical Figures (edited book)
    with Ephraim Meir, Edna Langenthal, Gary D. Mole, Elisabeth Goldwyn, Catherine Chalier, Michal Ben-Naftali, Richard A. Cohen, Hanoch Ben-Pazi, and Tamar Abramov
    Lexington Books. 2014.
    Levinas Faces Biblical Figures captures the drama of the encounter between a great philosopher and a text of primary importance. The book considers the ways in which Levinas's thoughts can open up the biblical text to requestioning, and how the biblical text can inform our reading of Levinas
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    Making Sense of God: Samson Raphael Hirsch and Franz Rosenzweig on Translation and Anthropomorphisms
    Journal of Jewish Thought and Philosophy 31 (2): 187-214. 2023.
    Contrary to the classical denial of bodily attributes or human emotions to God, both Samson Raphael Hirsch and Franz Rosenzweig embrace biblical anthropomorphisms. Their views on anthropomorphisms are part of their critiques of philosophy, especially of the basic preconceptions of the philosophical approach to the concept of God. This article analyses their positions by examining Hirsch’s commentaries on scripture (especially Gen 6:6), and Rosenzweig’s “A Note on Anthropomorphisms in Response to…Read more
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    The Tragedy of Tragedy
    Levinas Studies 16 39-57. 2022.
    The following paper analyzes the effect of the Shakespearean text—and Hamlet in particular—on Levinas’s thought. I argue that Levinas’s reading of Shakespeare’s Hamlet played a decisive role in one of the most crucial phenomenological debates to be found in the Levinasian text, namely, the debate with Heidegger on the meaning of death and on the object of Angst (anguish). Analyzing Levinas’s remarks on Hamlet in his philosophical text, this article demonstrates how Shakespeare inspires Levinas’s…Read more
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    L'apologie de Mendelssohn
    Verdier. 2018.
    Jérusalem, livre majeur de Moses Mendelssohn, est une apologie du judaïsme. Apologie dans le sens de Socrate : sommé de répondre aux accusations des hommes de la cité, Mendelssohn, le " Socrate de Berlin ", doit répondre de soi. Peut-on être juif et éclairé à la fois? Le juif des Lumières est-il pensable? Peut-il exister? Face à la critique moderne du judaïsme - celle qui trouve sa formulation la plus accomplie dans le Traité théologico-politique de Spinoza -, Mendelssohn formule une réponse fon…Read more
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    This article offers a close reading of Kafka’s In the Penal Colony, exploring the text as a radical reflection on the nature of modernity in general, and Jewish modernity in particular. The article posits that In the Penal Colony is a meditation on the relation between suffering, transgression and law. For Kafka, where modernity is understood as the incapacity of linking suffering and transgression (sin), the old order is one where the relationship between suffering and transgression is understo…Read more
  • Languages of the Universal. Levinas’ Doctrine of Literature
    In Michael Fagenblat & Arthur Cools (eds.), Levinas and Literature: New Directions, De Gruyter. pp. 77-92. 2020.
  • Commentaire
    Cahiers d'Études Lévinassiennes 5. 2006.
  • Introduction à « Enigme et phénomène »
    Cahiers d'Études Lévinassiennes 3. 2004.
  • Le nom du Maître: Fragment messianique
    Cahiers d'Études Lévinassiennes. 2005.
  • Sur le Mal élémental
    Cahiers d'Études Lévinassiennes 7. 2008.
  • Introduction à "Etre juif"
    Cahiers d'Études Lévinassiennes 1. 2003.