Making ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
TitleMaking ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
Author
Call number940.5318/0361
Object number07499i
Place of publicationNew York, New York, United States
PublisherPalgrave Macmillan
Year of publication
2009
Physical descriptionpp133-154
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780230614925
NotesArticle from the book "The double binds of ethics after the Holocaust: salvaging the fragments" pp133-154
Description
Jules Simon works out a practical application of Levinas's complex and demanding ethical theory. Traces the demand to respond with words and gestures to the suffering of the other and of even taking up the other's own responsibility or lack thereof
