Correlations in Rosenzweig and Levinas

Acknowledgments

Acknowledgments PORTIONS of this book appeared in earlier versions in other publications. I wish to thank those publications for their kind permission to reprint those materials here. Portions of Chapter 9 were first published as “Substitution : Marcel and Levinas,” in Philosophy and Theology, Marquette University Quarterly, vol. 4 (Winter 1989): 171–85; portions of Chapter 1 as “Limits of Thought: Rosenzweig, Schelling, and Cohen,” in Zeitschrift für philosophische Forschung, vol. 43 (October 1989): 618–40; and portions of Chapter 10 were first published in 1991 in University Press of America as “‘Greek’ in the ‘Hebrew’ Writings of Emmanuel Levinas ,” in the edited volume, Studies in Jewish Philosophy, Vol. II, ed. by D. Novak and N. Samuelson. I have received much support in the writing of this manuscript. From 1986 to 1988, the Mellon Humanities Faculty Development Fund at St. Louis University provided me the opportunity to meet with Emmanuel Levinas, attend the Rosenzweig Centennary conference in Kassel, West Germany, and conduct research on Part I of The Star of Redemption. In addition the Leo Baeck Institute and the DAAD supported my research of Rosenzweig’s papers at the Leo Baeck Institute in New York during the summer of 1990. Finally, Princeton University also supported my research at the Leo Baeck Institute and travels to Paris to meet again with Levinas, as well as giving me a sabbatical leave in 1990 to conclude this book. Beyond these more formal acknowledgments, there are also several people whom I wish to thank for their support and encouragement. First of all, Alan Udoff for proposing this interpretative study and then suggesting the name Correlations. My research commenced in St. Louis in a context of true collegiality with several remarkable philosophical minds. The reading circle we formed of James Bohman, Michael Barber, and J. Claude Evans was particularly nurturing and constructive. A second group, the Academy for Jewish Philosophy, has been both the recipient of the first airing of much of this work and the source of much helpful criticism . Norbert Samuelson, Peter Ochs, and Richard Cohen have been especially helpful to me. And here, in Princeton, my new colleagues, especially Jeff Stout and Cornel West, have not only encouraged me but have contributed to the development of this book considerably. In addition I wish to thank Edith Wyschogrod for leading the way in Levinas research in America and for helpful suggestions on this book. I also wish to recall Steven S. Schwarzschild, z″l, Professor of Philosophy at Washington Uni- x • Acknowledgments versity. He certainly is the person who would be most pleased to see a book that locates contemporary Jewish philosophy in a family whose progenitor is Hermann Cohen. Steven offered me true company and philosophical friendship in the years we both were in St. Louis. He remains the true first reader of this book. Finally, I thank Deirdre and Ariel for sharing the computer, their table, their patience, and indeed their lives with me. ...