Making ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
[nb-NO]Title[nb-NO]Making ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
[nb-NO]Author[nb-NO]
Call number940.5318/0361
[nb-NO]Object number[nb-NO]07499i
[nb-NO]Place of publication[nb-NO]New York, New York, United States
[nb-NO]Publisher[nb-NO]Palgrave Macmillan
[nb-NO]Year of publication[nb-NO]
2009
[nb-NO]Pagination[nb-NO]pp133-154
[nb-NO]Material[nb-NO]Article
[nb-NO]ISBN[nb-NO]9780230614925
NotesArticle from the book "The double binds of ethics after the Holocaust: salvaging the fragments" pp133-154
[nb-NO]Description[nb-NO]
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