Levinas and the Crisis of Humanism

<p>Reexamining Emmanuel Levinas's essays on Jewish education Claire Elise Katz provides new insights into the importance of education and its potential to transform a democratic society for Levinas's larger philosophical project. Katz examines Levinas's Crisis of Humanism which motivated his effort to describe a new ethical subject. Taking into account his multiple influences on social science and the humanities and his various identities as a Jewish thinker philosopher and educator Katz delves deeply into Levinas's works to understand the grounding of this ethical subject.</p>