Levy (emeritus philosophy, U. of Haifa) has written 17 books and many essays and articles. Here Yudit Kornburg Greenburg (religion and Jewish studies, Rollins College, Florida) presents a retrospective of his contributions to scholarship on Benedictus de Spinoza (1632-77) and Emmanuel Lévinas (1906-95) and some other Jewish philosophers. Among the topics are esoteric writings by Spinoza and Maimonides, biblical hermeneutics of J. G. Herder and J. W. von Goethe, whether it makes sense to speak about Jewish ethics, and Lévinas on secularization. He has revised, and translated if necessary, the 10 essays from previous publication. Only names are indexed. Annotation ©2010 Book News, Inc., Portland, OR (booknews.com)