Volume 14, 2020
Michael L. Morgan
Pages 165-185
https://doi.org/10.5840/levinas202152714
I, You, We: Community and Fraternity in Buber, Rosenzweig, and Levinas
Levinas¡¯s notion of fraternity and his conception of an ideal human society recover themes from late nineteenth and early twentieth-century social and political thought. In this paper I show how Levinas¡¯s thinking can be illuminated by examining the conceptions of community that we find in Martin Buber¡¯s dialogical thinking and in Franz Rosenzweig¡¯s concept of redemption and redemptive community in The Star of Redemption.