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Levinas's faithfulness to Husserl, phenomenology, and God

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  01 December 2011

THOMAS FINEGAN
THOMAS FINEGAN
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Department of Law, Trinity College Dublin, College Green, Dublin 2, Ireland e-mail: finegant@tcd.ie
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Abstract

The contemporary debate in phenomenology concerning the ‘theological turn’ raises the issue of the relationship between faith and reason. One of the foremost statements on the theological turn, that of Dominique Janicaud, is an affirmation of the faith–reason dichotomy in the context of phenomenology, specifically in relation to how thinkers like Emmanuel Levinas have abused the phenomenological project of its founder, Edmund Husserl. This article challenges the faith–reason dichotomy and shows that the role of faith in Levinas need not mark him out as a deviant from Husserlian phenomenology.

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Religious Studies , Volume 48 , Issue 3 , September 2012 , pp. 281 - 303
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Copyright © Cambridge University Press 2011

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