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For both Levinas and the medievals, as Brun asserts, the "orality" of the text is pivotal (the literature of the medieval epoch was often times read aloud or sung, in a manner reminiscent of the way the Torah is read in a Jewish traditional communal setting). Contributors such as Joy, Kaufman, Kline, Paxon, Jackson, and Mitchell focus the lion's share of their expositions on the merits and appeal of reading Levinas in dialogue with leading works of English literature of the Middle Ages, whereas others (including Kraman, Goodhart, Astell, and Gold) offer compelling readings of Levinas's celebrated Talmudic readings as symptomatic of the manner in which one may approach medieval literature in a critical, yet literary manner. The editors of this volume do well to methodologically qualify this otherwise creative endeavor, by stressing that strictly speaking, this is "not a study of Levinas's writings on the Middle Ages," but rather an attempt to ascertain the applicability of Levinas's hermeneutics to this literature, "weirdly, perhaps, but engagingly," as they themselves assert. And in that respect, the plausibility of the project, however esoteric and prima facie counter-intuitive it may seem, may indeed be justified. Tal Sessler Jewish Theological Seminary Levinas's
Shofar: An Interdisciplinary Journal of Jewish Studies – Purdue University Press
Published: Jun 1, 2011
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