@inbook{df52f00b9b6e40969059d8b20c480ab0,
title = "The Holy Text and Violence: Levinas and Fundamentalism",
abstract = "Levinas'rejection of a historical ciritcal approach to sacred texts as well as his depreciation of Spinoza's view of the Bible might bring him close to fundamentalism. A thorough analysis is necessary to demonstrate essential differences. Levinas'rejection of a historical ciritcal approach to sacred texts as well as his depreciation of Spinoza's view of the Bible might bring him close to fundamentalism. A thorough analysis is necessary to demonstrate essential differences. In a way Levinas' attitude to the Talmud comes close to Heidegger's attitude towards presocratic philosophy.",
keywords = "hermeneutics, transcendence, fundamentalism",
author = "Marcel Poorthuis",
year = "2015",
language = "English",
series = "Studies in Contemporary Phenomenology",
publisher = "Brill Academic Publishers",
pages = "143--162",
editor = "Andris Breitlin and Chris Bremmers and Arthur Cools",
booktitle = "Debating Levinas' legacy",
address = "Netherlands",
}