Ethics and Suffering Since the Holocaust: Making Ethics "First Philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein

ISBN-13: 9780367876340 / Angielski / Miękka / 2019 / 186 str.

Ingrid Anderson

Opis

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

Spis treści

1. Philosophical Ethics in Inter-War Europe: The 1929 Davos Disputation and Anti-(neo) Kantian Backlash

2. The Call of the Other: Levinasian Ethics

3. In Spite of Man: The Ethics of Elie Wiesel

4. "There is Nothing Final About the Death of God": Richard Rubenstein's Post-Holocaust Ethics

5. Toward an Ethics Grounded in Suffering

O autorze

Ingrid L. Anderson is a doctor of Religious Studies. She is a full-time instructor in the College of Arts and Science Writing Program and an affiliate of the Elie Wiesel Center at Boston University. She currently teaches courses on post-Holocaust ethics, Judaism and gender, and modern Jewish thought. Her research interests include contemporary understandings of the relationship between ethical response and suffering and the construction of minority identities in the West. Her current research focuses on changes in the notions of Jewish mission and Jewish chosenness after 1945.