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"In what follows, then, I would like to think through Levinas's ideas on transcendence and ethics in such a way as to map out a new pathway for approaching Shakespeare's great tragedy. As unorthodox as it may sound, I propose to shed light on the darkling religiosity of King Lear by turning-not to the theological doctrines of early modem Christians-but to the postmodern ethics of a twentieth-century Jew."
ISBN
9781557538055
Publication Date
2018
Publisher
Purdue University Press
City
West Lafayette, Indiana
Keywords
King Lear, Cordelia, Christianity, Judaism, Emmanuel Levinas, ethics, philosophy
Disciplines
Applied Ethics | Christianity | Dramatic Literature, Criticism and Theory | Ethics and Political Philosophy | Ethics in Religion | Jewish Studies | Literature in English, British Isles | Other Philosophy | Other Religion | Religious Thought, Theology and Philosophy of Religion | Theatre History
Recommended Citation
Kent R. Lehnhof, "Theology, Phenomenology, and the Divine in King Lear." Of Levinas and Shakespeare: "To See Another Thus". Editied by Moshe Gold, Sandor Goodhart, and Kent Lehnhof, Purdue University Press, 2018, pp. 107-22.
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Purdue University Press
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Comments
In Moshe Gold, Sandor Goodhart, and Kent Lehnhof (Eds.), Of Levinas and Shakespeare: "To See Another Thus,. Dr. Lehnhof's chapter begins on page 107.