Making ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
TitelMaking ethical sense of useless suffering with Levinas
Författare
Call number940.5318/0361
Objektnummer07499i
PubliceringsortNew York, New York, United States
UtgivarePalgrave Macmillan
Publikationsår
2009
Pagineringpp133-154
MaterialArticle
ISBN9780230614925
NotesArticle from the book "The double binds of ethics after the Holocaust: salvaging the fragments" pp133-154
Beskrivning
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