Genocide in Jewish Thought
Genocide in Jewish Thought
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Among the topics explored in this book are ways of viewing the soul, the relation between body and soul, environmentalist thought, the phenomenon of torture, and the philosophical and theological warrants for genocide. Presenting an analysis of abstract modes of thought that have contributed to genocide, the book argues that a Jewish model of concrete thinking may inform our understanding of the abstractions that can lead to genocide. Its aim is to draw upon distinctively Jewish categories of thought to demonstrate how the conceptual defacing of the other human being serves to promote the murder of peoples, and to suggest a way of thinking that might help prevent genocide.
- Exposes a connection between Athens and Auschwitz
- Demonstrates the genocidal tendency of creed-based religion
- Makes a connection between genocide and phenomena such as our thinking about the soul, environmentalism, torture, and hunger
- Offers an alternative to genocidal thinking in the concrete thinking of Jewish teaching and tradition
Product details
May 2012Hardback
9781107011045
264 pages
234 × 158 × 21 mm
0.5kg
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Table of Contents
- 1. Introduction: a name, not an essence
- 2. Why Jewish thought and what makes it Jewish?
- 3. Deadly philosophical abstraction
- 4. The stranger in your midst
- 5. Nefesh: the soul as flesh and blood
- 6. The environmentalist contribution to genocide
- 7. Torture
- 8. Hunger and homelessness
- 9. Philosophy, religion, and genocide
- 10. A concluding reflection on body and soul.
