TY - BOOK ID - 7267397 TI - Ethics and suffering since the Holocaust : making ethics "first philosophy" in Levinas, Wiesel and Rubenstein PY - 2016 SN - 9781138125292 1138125296 9781315647555 9781317298342 9781317298359 PB - Abingdon, Oxon Routledge DB - UniCat KW - Suffering KW - Holocaust, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Rubenstein, Richard L. KW - Wiesel, Elie, KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel KW - 296*52 KW - 296*52 Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora KW - Joodse ethiek: Halacha; Minhag (gewoonten); Tora KW - Catastrophe, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Destruction of the Jews (1939-1945) KW - Extermination, Jewish (1939-1945) KW - Holocaust, Nazi KW - Ḥurban (1939-1945) KW - Ḥurbn (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Catastrophe (1939-1945) KW - Jewish Holocaust (1939-1945) KW - Jews KW - Nazi Holocaust KW - Nazi persecution of Jews KW - Shoʾah (1939-1945) KW - Genocide KW - World War, 1939-1945 KW - Kindertransports (Rescue operations) KW - Affliction KW - Masochism KW - Pain KW - Nazi persecution KW - Persecutions KW - Atrocities KW - Jewish resistance KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel. KW - Wiesel, Eliezer, KW - Wiezel, Eli, KW - Vizel, Eli, KW - Weisel, Elie, KW - Визель, Эли, KW - וויזל, אליעזר KW - וויזל, אליעזר, KW - וויזל, אליעזר4 KW - ווייזעל, אלי, KW - וויסל, עליעזר KW - ויזל, אלי KW - ויזל, אלי, KW - Lévinas, E. KW - Leṿinas, ʻImanuʼel KW - Levinas, Emani︠u︡el KW - לוינס׳ עמנואל KW - לוינס, עמנואל KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel, KW - Rubenstein. Richard L. KW - Līfīnās, Īmānwāl KW - ليفيناس، إيمانوال KW - Moral and ethical aspects KW - Holocaust, Nazi (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi Holocaust (Jewish Holocaust) KW - Nazi persecution (1939-1945) KW - Suffering - Moral and ethical aspects. KW - Wiesel, Elie, - 1928-2016 KW - Lévinas, Emmanuel, - 1906-1995 UR - https://www.unicat.be/uniCat?func=search&query=sysid:7267397 AB - 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 and Richard Rubenstein respond to this problem by insisting that ethics must be Western thought's first concern. Unlike previous thinkers, they locate humanity's source of universal ethical obligation in the temporal world of experience, where human suffering, rather than metaphysics, provides the ground for ethical engagement. All three thinkers contend that Judaism’s key lesson is that our fellow human is our responsibility, and use Judaism to develop a contemporary ethics that could operate with or without God. Ethics and Suffering since the Holocaust explores selected works of Levinas, Wiesel, and Rubenstein for practical applications of their ethics, analyzing the role of suffering and examining the use each thinker makes of Jewish sources and the advantages and disadvantages of this use. Finally, it suggests how the work of Jewish thinkers living in the wake of the Holocaust can be of unique value to those interested in the problem of ethics in the twentieth and twenty-first centuries. Presenting a thorough investigation of the work of Levinas, Wiesel and Rubinstein, this book is of key interest to students and scholars of Jewish studies, as well as Jewish ethics and philosophy. ER -