Making ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
TitelMaking ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
Forfatter
Call number940.5318/0361
Objektnummer07499i
UdgivelsesstedNew York, New York, United States
UdgiverPalgrave Macmillan
Udgivelsesår
2009
Pagineringpp133-154
MaterialeArticle
ISBN9780230614925
NoterArticle from the book "The double binds of ethics after the Holocaust: salvaging the fragments" pp133-154
Beskrivelse
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