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Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust - Making ethics "first philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein (Paperback)
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Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust - Making ethics "first philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Jewish Studies Series
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For many, the Holocaust made thinking about ethics in traditional
ways impossible. It called into question the predominance of
speculative ontology in Western thought, and left many arguing that
Western political, cultural and philosophical inattention to
universal ethics were both a cause and an effect of European
civilization's collapse in the twentieth century. Emmanuel Levinas,
Elie Wiesel and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by
insisting that ethics must be Western thought's first concern.
Unlike previous thinkers, they locate humanity's source of
universal ethical obligation in the temporal world of experience,
where human suffering, rather than metaphysics, provides the ground
for ethical engagement. All three thinkers contend that Judaism's
key lesson is that our fellow human is our responsibility, and use
Judaism to develop a contemporary ethics that could operate with or
without God. Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust explores
selected works of Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein for practical
applications of their ethics, analyzing the role of suffering and
examining the use each thinker makes of Jewish sources and the
advantages and disadvantages of this use. Finally, it suggests how
the work of Jewish thinkers living in the wake of the Holocaust can
be of unique value to those interested in the problem of ethics in
the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting a thorough
investigation of the work of Levinas, Wiesel and Rubinstein, this
book is of key interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies,
as well as Jewish ethics and philosophy.
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