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Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust: Making Ethics

1st Edition

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

By Ingrid Anderson Copyright 2016
194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge

194 Pages
by Routledge
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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... Read more

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

Biography



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.

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