A demagogue is a tyrant who owes his initial rise to the democratic support of the masses. Huey Long, Hugo Chavez, and Moqtada al-Sadr are all clear examples of this dangerous byproduct of democracy.
In 1941 the historian Irving Brant wrote, ?Among all the men who shaped the present government of the United States of America,” Brant wrote, ?the one who did the most is known the least.” Brant concl
First, this collection seeks to examine exactly what Levinas’s writings mean for both Jews and Christians. Second, it takes a snapshot of the current state of Jewish-Christian dialogue, using Levinas
We are exorbitant, and rightly so, when we cut any link we may have to cosmological powers. Levinas invites us to be exorbitant by distancing ourselves from visions of metaphysics, epistemology, and t
Fifteen papers from a conference held at the University of Notre Dame in 1996 which explore the tensions that characterised the relationship between Jews and Christians across Europe during the 12th c
This collection of original essays covers the years 1050 to 1215, but the story really begins in the summer of 1096, when marauding crusaders attacked Jewish communities in three Rhineland cities. The
